TheEconomist / us-potus-model

Code for a dynamic multilevel Bayesian model to predict US presidential elections. Written in R and Stan.
https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president
MIT License
1.25k stars 191 forks source link

Delegate Confidence Interval conflicts with estimated probability of win. #23

Closed ckoopmann closed 4 years ago

ckoopmann commented 4 years ago

As of today the model on the economist.com website estimates the win probability of candidate biden / president trump at 96 % / 4 % respectively. At the same time the graph on the estimation of delegates shows that the 95 % confidence interval for both candidates goes across the line of 270 Delegates. From my understanding of statistics and the US Election system this seems to conflict:

image image