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electionscience / vse-sim

Methods for running simulations to calculate Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE) of various voting systems in various conditions.
https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim
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"Random Ballot" -> "Random Winner" #28

Closed endolith closed 2 years ago

endolith commented 3 years ago

Random Ballot is weighted in favor of candidates who received more ballots, while Random Winner is unweighted and measures the average utility of the candidates.

Merrill says

E[random candidate]

and Shentrup says

R is the expected utility produced by random selection (in other words, the average utility of all candidates)

so I'm pretty sure this is correct, but submitting as a PR so someone else can check first.