San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association Seminar
Special Seminar
Feb 16, 2012, 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Philip Stark, Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley (Speaker)
An election should find out who won. Moreover, it should produce convincing evidence that it found the real winners--or report that it cannot. Resilient canvass frameworks (RCFs) formalize this idea. The overall human, procedural, hardware, and software elements involved in running an election is a RCF if it has a known minimum chance of identifying the correct winners, when it identifies winners...