On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit

We consider the problem of statistical sampling for auditing elections, and we develop a remarkably simple and easily-calculated upper bound for the sample size necessary for determining with probability at least c whether a given set of n objects contains b or more “bad” objects. While the size of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rivest, Ronald L., Popa, Raluca A., Aslam, Javed A.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96591

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