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The Elasticity of the Vote for Dummies

Hausmann and Rigobon’s argument about the non-randomness of the CNE cold-audit sample is based on something they’ve called the “elasticity of the vote.” The concept is borrowed from...

Francisco Toro September 10, 2004

Life

The Zenith of the Egghead Brigade

Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford’s law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute...

Francisco Toro September 10, 2004

Life

The Elasticity of the Vote for Dummies

Hausmann and Rigobon’s argument about the non-randomness of the CNE cold-audit sample is based on something they’ve called the “elasticity of the vote.” The concept is borrowed from...

Francisco Toro September 10, 2004

Life

The Zenith of the Egghead Brigade

Thanks to Miguel Octavio for linking to this astonishing New York Times article on Benford’s law. Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute...

Francisco Toro September 10, 2004

Life

Pre-emptive Strike: Anticipating the Counterarguments to Hausmann and Rigobon

I’ve been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon’s piece to try to find holes in it. I’m finding it hard. The most obvious counterargument doesn’t seem to work…and...

Francisco Toro September 8, 2004

Life

Pre-emptive Strike: Anticipating the Counterarguments to Hausmann and Rigobon

I’ve been reading and re-reading Hausmann and Rigobon’s piece to try to find holes in it. I’m finding it hard. The most obvious counterargument doesn’t seem to work…and...

Francisco Toro September 8, 2004

Life

Hausmann and Rigobon: The incomprehensible, the evident and the damning

Hausmann and Rigobon’s paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.The Incomprehensible. Hausmann and Rigobon claim that a sophisticated...

Francisco Toro September 7, 2004

Life

Hausmann and Rigobon: The incomprehensible, the evident and the damning

Hausmann and Rigobon’s paper on the evidence of fraud in the Recall Referendum makes three basic arguments. Instant reaction. 1.The Incomprehensible. Hausmann and Rigobon claim that a sophisticated...

Francisco Toro September 7, 2004

Life

Puro cuarto bate

Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don’t get teaching posts at Harvard and MIT for tirar...

Francisco Toro September 7, 2004

Life

Puro cuarto bate

Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Rigobon must be the two most respected and accomplished Venezuelan academics out there. You don’t get teaching posts at Harvard and MIT for tirar...

Francisco Toro September 7, 2004

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