Measuring legislative boundaries
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 and Miller (2010).
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2013
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Authors: | Chambers, Christopher P. ; Miller, Alan D. |
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Mathematical Social Sciences. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-4896. - Vol. 66.2013, 3, p. 268-275
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Elsevier |
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