Measuring legislative boundaries
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چکیده
We introduce the first family of district compactness measures that can incorporate a wide range of internal geographic features. The measures in this family are the probability that a district contains an admissible path between a randomly selected pair of people. The measure can account for roads, travel time, political boundaries, and prior districts. This family of measures includes the path-based measure of Chambers
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Mathematical Social Sciences
دوره 66 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013