On 5 Jan 2001 08:15:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD)
wrote:
>It would be valuable to record all of the issues of interest to
>Statisticians. Here's a quick list off the top of my head. I'm not looking
>to re-open these issues for debate. I just want to summarize what I think
>were the statistical concepts brought to our attention by this election.
>Validity: will a machine recount or a human recount provide a "better"
>number of the actual vote totals? Better in what sense?
Some of these concerns could also be
Reliability: Inter-rater reliability Do different counters see
the same response on the same card? Also reliability of
recounts - do machines and counters get the same count every time
they recount the same N cards. Would different vote formats
produce the same counts?
I realize that some of these push the envelope on the definition
of reliability but we are in essence talking a one item test.
--
Leo G. Simonetta
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