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Introduction to Bayesian ThinkingIntroduction to Bayesian Thinking. Friday, October 31, 2008. How Many Electoral Votes will Obama Get? Yesterday Chris Rump at BGSU gave an interesting presentation about simulating the 2008 Presidential Election. He was explaining the methodology used by Nate Silver in the fivethirtyeight.com site. Here is a relatively simple Bayesian approach for estimating the number of electoral votes that Barack Obama will get in the election on Tuesday. PM 235 p.O 255 (1-p.M - p.O) 10. 1 Alabama 58 36 1.000 9. 4 Ark...
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