Legislative Apportionment in Kansas

Fairness in Apportionment

Source apportionment

Non-methane hydrocarbons source apportionment at different sites in Mexico City during 2002–2003 E. Vega, G. Sanchez, and L. Molina Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas Nm. 152.Col, San Bartolo Atepehuacan, Delegación Gustavo A. Madero, 07730, México, D.F., Mexico Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, ...

Apportionment JWR

Stochastic Apportionment

Geoffrey Grimmett Abstra t. The problem of how to allocate to states the seats in the US House of Representatives is the most studied instance of what is termed the ‘apportionment problem’. We propose a new method of apportionment which is stochastic, which meets the quota condition, and which is fair in the sense of expectations. Two sources of systematic unfairness are identified, firstly the...

Apportionment in Theory and Practice

Apportionment is the problem of translating an election outcome to a number of seats in fixed-size political house. Mathematically, the problem consists of translating a sequence of reals to a sequence of integers, while ensuring that the sum of the sequence sums to a pre-determined number. The problem arises because seats are indivisible, whereas an election outcome generally gives rise to fra...