as_survey

This functions takes votes in percent (per party) obtained from a survey,
and returns a table containing votes (in percent) and party names. Conducts
sanity checks along the way, such as checking that percentages add up to 1.

internal

An implementation of a Bayesian framework for the opinion poll
based estimation of event probabilities in multi-party electoral systems
(Bender and Bauer (2018) <doi:10.21105/joss.00606>).

Andreas Bender

coalitions

Bayesian "Now-Cast" Estimation of Event Probabilities in
Multi-Party Democracies

Alexander Bauer

Rebekka Schade

as_survey function

<dl><dt>percent</dt>
<dd>Votes in percent each party received in the survey
of interest. Can be set to <code>NA</code>, if parties are specified that are not
mentioned in the specific survey (otherwise the <code>parties</code> argument has
to be modified).</dd>
<dt>samplesize</dt>
<dd>Number of respondents in survey.</dd>
<dt>parties</dt>
<dd>Vector of same length and in the same order as <code>percent</code></dd>
<dt>epsilon</dt>
<dd>The parameter <code>percent</code> should add up to one.
This parameter controls the maximal numerical divergence allowed.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Creates basic survey table from votes in percent — as_survey

<dl>

<dt>percent</dt>
<dd>Votes in percent each party received in the survey
of interest. Can be set to <code>NA</code>, if parties are specified that are not
mentioned in the specific survey (otherwise the <code>parties</code> argument has
to be modified).</dd>


<dt>samplesize</dt>
<dd>Number of respondents in survey.</dd>


<dt>parties</dt>
<dd>Vector of same length and in the same order as <code>percent</code></dd>


<dt>epsilon</dt>
<dd>The parameter <code>percent</code> should add up to one.
This parameter controls the maximal numerical divergence allowed.</dd>

</dl>

as_survey: Creates basic survey table from votes in percent

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