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Asymptotic Equivalence of Seat Bias Models
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Asymptotic Equivalence of Seat Bias Models

Udo Schwingenschlögl
Statistical papers (Berlin, Germany), Vol.49(2), pp.191-200
01/04/2008

Abstract

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Economics Finance Insurance Management Mathematics and Statistics Operations Research/Decision Theory Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Regular Article Statistics Statistics for Business
Apportionment methods round vote proportions to integer numbers of seats in a parliament. An important issue is whether a given apportionment method treats larger and smaller parties equally or gives rise to seat biases. In this paper two models of quantifying seat biases of popular apportionment methods are compared to each other. The models are found to result in the same asymptotic behaviour when the number of seats available for apportionment grows large.

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