[EM] Statistical pairwise method

[Richard Lung]

The system, Binomial STV, which Kristofer once asked me to show how it 
works, with his example, is a statistical count, as the name, binomial 
implies.
Binomial Transferable Voting (BTV) is a generalisation from conventional 
STV, which is zero order BTV, which I support, because it is essentially 
the right method, unlike the legion of other official systems.
BTV is not a Condorcet pairing system.

from Richard Lung.



On 20/02/2017 16:13, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> A few days ago, I happened upon this page:
>
> http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/03/07/designing-a-better-judging-system/
>
> which seems to describe a pairwise method that's based on maximizing the
> MLE of a model where a voter samples some preference for X and for Y on
> two Gaussians (with unknown means) and votes X>Y if his sample for X is
> greater than his sample for Y.
>
> Is this Condorcet? It might well be (because of the Condorcet jury
> theorem). In any case, it's an interesting approach, and reminds me of
> Peter Zbornik asking some years ago if it'd be possible to model voter
> decisions as uncertain on some statistical basis and take that into account.
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