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31 October 2006
Predicting Elections
Jacob Eisenstein at MIT has developed an smart election predictor for the US Senate Elections using a Kalman Filter. The filter helps to decide how much extra weight to attach to more recent polls. Check it out here; he also has some details on the method here.
Posted by Sebastian Bauhoff at October 31, 2006 2:01 PM