Andrew says there was “a routing problem this morning between the University and quite a few outside websites — a split in the internet, if you will.” For the next EV estimator update, check back at noon…
Entries Tagged as 'Meta-analysis'
Spacetime rift delays update until noon
October 7th, 2008, 11:42am by Sam Wang
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis · Site News
VP debate: big audience but race unchanged
October 5th, 2008, 3:00pm by Sam Wang
Biden v. Palin drew 70 million viewers, one-third more than Obama v. McCain. VP debates usually don’t matter, but I wondered…
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis
For locals: a talk on the Meta-Analysis
October 2nd, 2008, 9:00am by Sam Wang
Tomorrow (Friday) at noon, I’ll give a talk in Kosuke Imai and Dustin Tingley’s political methodology seminar. If you’re nearby, you’re welcome to attend. Of course, the math will all be included. The blurb is here (PDF).
Update: Here’s another local event, happening next Tuesday: a panel on the reliability of state polls featuring both pollsters [...]
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis · Princeton
New rules
September 30th, 2008, 9:26pm by Sam Wang
As we head into the last five weeks of the campaign, polls are coming more frequently. In response, we are making two changes to the Meta-Analysis: (a) the averaging rule and (b) the update schedule.
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis · Site News
Turning back
September 23rd, 2008, 2:35pm by Sam Wang
Today’s data puts the EV estimator back on track. This supports the double-outlier idea. Okay, back to our regularly scheduled Meta-Analysis.
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis
An unexpected turn
September 22nd, 2008, 10:36am by Sam Wang
Although national polls have shown steady movement in Obama’s direction, this weekend the Meta-Analysis made a clear move toward McCain. What’s going on?
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis
A change to the polling database
September 14th, 2008, 2:48pm by Sam Wang
Until now the Meta-Analysis has used all polls in the Pollster.com database. However, a source of many outliers is Zogby Interactive, which uses Internet-based polling. Recently we dropped them. The EV estimator will be calculated without their data.
Tags: Meta-analysis
Dialing it back…
September 10th, 2008, 8:34pm by Sam Wang
Reader PC thinks I need to be careful not to cross the line, so we can focus on the credibility of the work at hand. It’s a good point. The offending post is gone. Instead, here’s something more substantive: a video on the earmark queen. Which leads us to the funny bit:
Tags: 2008 Election · Meta-analysis · Site News
Taking feedback
September 2nd, 2008, 8:12am by Sam Wang
This morning on FiveThirtyEight, a correction meant to counteract the effect of post-convention bounces was removed. Evidently reader feedback was negative. This is a useful lesson…
Tags: Meta-analysis
Technical note: Correlated change among states (revisited)
August 28th, 2008, 2:51pm by Sam Wang
The next week and a half will be stormy, not only in the Gulf but also for polls. Seeing where political events take the median EV history will be clearer once we have polls taken after the Republican convention.
In the meantime, let’s return to an topic that is obscure, but loved by some hardcore polling [...]
Tags: Meta-analysis
