Sentence examples for voting index from inspiring English sources
We'll call this difference the R.V.I., or relative voting index (a takeoff on the partisan voting index produced by the Cook Political Report).
(The name is a takeoff on Cook Political's partisan voting index, which makes a similar calculation).
The FiveThirtyEight Presidential Voting Index differs from the simple method in a few important ways: Although this calculation might seem involved, the way to read the voting index is relatively straightforward.
Second, it adjusts the difference between a state's modified polling average and its voting index by its elasticity score, which reflects the fact that some states are "swingier" than others, making it easier to make gains at the margin there.
One crude way to forecast the results you might expect to see out of a House race is through its Partisan Voting Index, or P.V.I., a measure of how the district voted relative to others in the past two presidential elections.
First, instead of just looking at a state's relative popular vote in 2008, I calculate something called the FiveThirtyEight Presidential Voting Index.
So, some topics will only briefly be mentioned, while others will not be discussed at all: Notable omissions include the extensive literature on the discursive dilemma (see List 2006, and references therein) and an overview of the work on voting power indices (Felsenthal and Machover 1998).
The MSR offers a redesign of a voting game, such that voting power as measured by the MSR index becomes proportional to voting weight.
The main problem to be addressed is the accurate quantitative measurement of the thermal comfort inside indoor sports areas (e.g. swimming pools, fitness rooms, etc)., which in this work is estimated through the PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) index.
This is because, traditionally, air-conditioning airflow has been distributed without consideration of occupants' needs beyond setting temperature and fan speed to meet thermal comfort standards, such as the predicted mean vote index.
In buildings with heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC), the Predicted Mean Vote index (PMV) was successful at predicting comfort conditions, whereas in naturally ventilated buildings, only adaptive models provide accurate predictions.
