It's necessary to send this reply in parts, because of a comuter problem.
Warren says:
Mike Ossipoff in the thus-named post failed to provide any definition or any
theorem as usual
I reply:
Members: Note Warren's flame-war-style angry tone. The same tone with which he
began his
Warren says:
I mentioned before how Ossipoff, in his posts expressing his contempt for
probability
theory and the lack of need for valid probability density functions...
I reply:
Would Warren be so good as to post the dates and times of the postings in
which I expressed contempt for
It's necessary to send this reply in parts, because of a comuter problem.
Warren says:
Mike Ossipoff in the thus-named post failed to provide any definition or any
theorem as usual
I reply:
Members: Note Warrens flame-war-style angry tone. The same tone with which
he began his
Warrens says:
Anyhow, note
that my
method in http://rangevoting.org/NewAppo.html is capable (with a different
value
of d)
of handling the 1-seat-min still without bias...
I reply:
At least Warren puts bias in quotes. Warren seems to be using measured q
s/q correlation as a
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], warren_d_smith31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope! I wrote that __only where a state refuses to publish the data
needed to calculate the pairwise matrix__ the ballots from this state
should be interpreted as FPP ballots.
--true. And in the event the data IS
Warren Smith wrote:
Mike Ossipoff in the thus-named post failed to provide any definition or any
theorem as usual, while also failing to answer my question about Hamilton's
method.
Concerning further issues related to Apportionment:
1. Ossipoff's bias free method can be cast in a global
I've told why my methods are unbiased according to the popular meaning of
bias. (BF's unbias depends on the distribution; Weighted BF's unbias depends
on the accuracy of its distribution approximation). To disagree with those
claims, tell why you disagree with that bias definition, and provide
There's a lot I could cover here, but let's just touch on the very basics:
First, I'm happy to report that I've discovered that Nabble is able to
act both as a gateway and an archive for Mailman (which is the
software that this listserv runs). This effectively means that we
don't have to come to
