In this work we show a briefly presentation of four approaches to opinion polls. The example we present here, is referred on exit polls which have been realized for the elections of Serres Municipal in Greece on October 22nd of 2006. The methodology can be applied in any opinion poll, not only...

In this paper, we study the problem of misrepresentation under heavy-tailed regression models with the presence of both misrepresented and correctly-measured risk factors. Misrepresentation is a type of fraud when a policy applicant gives a false statement on a risk factor that determines the...