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Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities
The Presidential Election in Mexico of July 2012 has been the third time that PREP, Previous Electoral Results Program works. PREP gives voting outcomes based in electoral certificates of each polling station that arrive to capture centers. In previous ones, some statistical regularities had been ob...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24386103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082584 |
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author | Hernández-Saldaña, H. |
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description | The Presidential Election in Mexico of July 2012 has been the third time that PREP, Previous Electoral Results Program works. PREP gives voting outcomes based in electoral certificates of each polling station that arrive to capture centers. In previous ones, some statistical regularities had been observed, three of them were selected to make predictions and were published in arXiv:1207.0078 [physics.soc-ph]. Using the database made public in July 2012, two of the predictions were completely fulfilled, while, the third one was measured and confirmed using the database obtained upon request to the electoral authorities. The first two predictions confirmed by actual measures are: (ii) The Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI, is a sprinter and has a better performance in polling stations arriving late to capture centers during the process. (iii) Distribution of vote of this party is well described by a smooth function named a Daisy model. A Gamma distribution, but compatible with a Daisy model, fits the distribution as well. The third prediction confirms that errare humanum est, since the error distributions of all the self-consistency variables appeared as a central power law with lateral lobes as in 2000 and 2006 electoral processes. The three measured regularities appeared no matter the political environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-38754112014-01-02 Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities Hernández-Saldaña, H. PLoS One Research Article The Presidential Election in Mexico of July 2012 has been the third time that PREP, Previous Electoral Results Program works. PREP gives voting outcomes based in electoral certificates of each polling station that arrive to capture centers. In previous ones, some statistical regularities had been observed, three of them were selected to make predictions and were published in arXiv:1207.0078 [physics.soc-ph]. Using the database made public in July 2012, two of the predictions were completely fulfilled, while, the third one was measured and confirmed using the database obtained upon request to the electoral authorities. The first two predictions confirmed by actual measures are: (ii) The Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI, is a sprinter and has a better performance in polling stations arriving late to capture centers during the process. (iii) Distribution of vote of this party is well described by a smooth function named a Daisy model. A Gamma distribution, but compatible with a Daisy model, fits the distribution as well. The third prediction confirms that errare humanum est, since the error distributions of all the self-consistency variables appeared as a central power law with lateral lobes as in 2000 and 2006 electoral processes. The three measured regularities appeared no matter the political environment. Public Library of Science 2013-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3875411/ /pubmed/24386103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082584 Text en © 2013 H http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hernández-Saldaña, H. Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title | Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title_full | Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title_fullStr | Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title_full_unstemmed | Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title_short | Results on Three Predictions for July 2012 Federal Elections in Mexico Based on Past Regularities |
title_sort | results on three predictions for july 2012 federal elections in mexico based on past regularities |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24386103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082584 |
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