Predicting elections from biographical information about candidates: A test of the index method
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Predicting Elections from Biographical Information about Candidates
Traditional election forecasting models are estimated from time-series data on relevant variables and that limits the type and number of variables that can be used. Index models do not suffer from the same restrictions. We used as many as 60 biographical variables to create an index model for forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections. For each candidate, we simply counted the number of variables ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Business Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0148-2963
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.08.005