On Testing for Structural Effects in Electoral Geography, Using Entropy-Maximising Methods to Estimate Voting Patterns

1 February 1984

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Vol. 16 (2) , 233-240
https://doi.org/10.1068/a160233

Abstract

Entropy-maximising methods have been introduced in recent papers for estimating spatial variations in voting behaviour. The estimates can be used to test structural effect hypotheses. This paper illustrates such usage and discusses a major technical issue relating to it.

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