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Get better election predictions by combining diverse forecasts

  • Written by Andreas Graefe, Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Columbia School of Journalism) and at LMU Munich, Professor for CRM at Macromedia University, Munich, Germany, Columbia University
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Imagine you are among the legions of pundits and political commentators striving to predict the outcome of November’s presidential election. You’re not just interested in who will win – most citizens can predict that, it turns out. You want to...

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