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The Art of Elections Forecasting

Posted by timothy on from the can-we-get-a-point-spread-in-vegas? dept.

ideonexus writes "Years ago Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, a blog seeking to educate the public about elections forecasting, established his model as one of the most accurate in existence, rising from a fairly unknown statistician working in baseball to one of the most respected names in election forecasting. In this article he describes all the factors that go into his predictions. A fascinating overview of the process of modeling a chaotic system."

2 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Doesn't Matter by Nadaka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, he is. But he is still the best republican president we have had in a century.

  2. Re:It's all about the money by I_am_Jack · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always thought a Libertarian was just a Republican who wanted to legally smoke weed.