The Supreme Court's decision temporarily blocked a set of district maps that Ms. Callanen and other officials around the state were going to use in next year's elections.
The pressure is more immediate at the Menlo Oaks School, where the have-nots of Silicon Valley must pass a standardized state test in three subjects to be promoted and take the Ravenswood Stanford Achievement Tests, a set of district exams, for three days each quarter.
Therefore, a districting plan can be described and represented by a set of districting parameters.
London's vast urban area is often described using a set of district names, such as Bloomsbury, Mayfair, Wembley and Whitechapel.
The DHIS-a critical component of the national health information system-collects public sector facility data to produce a set of district health service indicators.
Considering households i nested in districts j, the model is: E i j * = γ 00 + Σ γ 0 j W j + Σ β k i X i j + u 0 j + ε i j with: E ij *=logit(P(E ij =1)), W j is a set of district characteristics, X ij is a set of household characteristics, u0 j are the random intercept varying over district γ00 with mean zero and variance σ 00 2, ɛ ij is normally distributed with mean zero and variance σ ε 2.
The capacitated redistricting problem (CRP) has the objective to redefine, under a given criterion, an initial set of districts of an urban area represented by a geographic network.
By law, the petition period was supposed to begin June 4, but the Legislature postponed the process by two weeks because it still had not passed a set of Congressional district boundaries.
105 The problem has been referred to as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem defined as the 'geographic manifestation of the ecological fallacy in which conclusions based on data aggregated to a particular set of districts may change if one aggregates the same underlying data to a different set of districts'.
"The goal is to establish a set of indicators that districts and states will track over time," says Sarah Glover, the project's director.
