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A Measure of Bizarreness
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Chambers, Christopher P.
- Miller, Alan D.
Abstract
We introduce a path-based measure of convexity to be used in assessing the compactness of legislative districts. Our measure is the probability that a district will contain the shortest path between a randomly selected pair of its points. The measure is defined relative to exogenous political boundaries and population distributions.
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We would like to thank Paul Healy, Ehud Lehrer, R. Preston McAfee, Matthew Spitzer, Peyton Young, and seminar participants at Caltech for their comments.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170728-160719330
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- Social Science Working Papers
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- Social Science Working Paper
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- 1272