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Ari Decter-Frain; Pratik Sachdeva; Loren Collingwood; Hikari Murayama; Juandalyn Burke; Matt Barreto; Scott Henderson; Spencer Wood; Joshua Zingher – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
We consider the cascading effects of researcher decisions throughout the process of quantifying racially polarized voting (RPV). We contrast three methods of estimating precinct racial composition, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), fully Bayesian BISG, and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), and two algorithms for performing ecological…
Descriptors: Voting, Computation, Racial Composition, Bayesian Statistics
Alluri, Priyanka – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With about 125 people dying on US roads each day, the US Department of Transportation heightened the awareness of critical safety issues with the passage of SAFETEA-LU (Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act--A Legacy for Users) legislation in 2005. The legislation required each of the states to develop a Strategic Highway…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Traffic Safety, Transportation, Federal Legislation