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Exit polling and racial bloc voting: Combining individual-level and R×C ecological data
2010
Annals of Applied Statistics
Despite its shortcomings, cross-level or ecological inference remains a necessary part of some areas of quantitative inference, including in United States voting rights litigation. Ecological inference suffers from a lack of identification that, most agree, is best addressed by incorporating individual-level data into the model. In this paper we test the limits of such an incorporation by attempting it in the context of drawing inferences about racial voting patterns using a combination of an
doi:10.1214/10-aoas353
fatcat:p76kdefrxzc4bfwtbbx7pnqu3m