when the winner_comes_third
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Presentation I gave at ABPC annual meeting.TRANSCRIPT
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When the Winner Comes Third:Simulating Candidates’ Winnability With Inaccurate Polls
Daniel Marcelino and Alejandro Tapias
5 de agosto de 2014
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Where did the pollsters go wrong?
Average EstimatesCandidates Actual 3 Weeks (n=10)
Russomanno 18.84 29.08Serra 26.83 20.84Haddad 25.28 18.25Others 23.63 24.53Undecideds – 07.30
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Where did the pollsters go wrong?
Average Estimates
Candidates Actual 3 Weeks (n=10) 1 Week (n=5)
Russomanno 18.84 29.08 24.56Serra 26.83 20.84 22.48Haddad 25.28 18.25 19.90Others 23.63 24.53 26.06Undecideds – 07.30 07.00
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Where did the pollsters go wrong?
Pollster
Datafolha Ibope Veritá VoxPopuliCandidates n=2 n=2 n=1 n=1
Russomanno + + + +Serra - - * -Haddad - - - -Others + + + *
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How do political scientists predict elections?
Four traditions are common in the literature(1) Economic vote models(2) Electoral cycles models(3) Models using prediction markets(4) Models that use polling data as the primary predictors
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How do political scientists predict elections?
Four traditions are common in the literature(1) Economic vote models(2) Electoral cycles models(3) Models using prediction markets(4) Models that use polling data as the primary predictors
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How do political scientists predict elections?
Four traditions are common in the literature(1) Economic vote models(2) Electoral cycles models(3) Models using prediction markets(4) Models that use polling data as the primary predictors
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How do political scientists predict elections?
Four traditions are common in the literature(1) Economic vote models(2) Electoral cycles models(3) Models using prediction markets(4) Models that use polling data as the primary predictors
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Political polls: The size matters
Sample Size
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500 1500 2500 3500 4500 5500 6500 7500 8500 9500 10500 11500 12500 13500 14500
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α = 0.01α = 0.05α = 0.1
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A poll is likely to be wrong, yet...
House effectsRoundingNon-response biasWording and OrderingMode bias
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A poll is likely to be wrong, yet...
Context: local elections in Brazil(-) High number of candidates (12)(-) Local elections = polls shortage (28)(-) Few pollsters (4)(-) Poor sampling designs(+) Face-to-face surveys(.) Political system features may cause high volatility
How can we cope with irregular and inaccurate polls to fit regular politicalsupport?
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The Method
Bayesian inferenceThe estimand parameters are considered random variables, but theseare still related to one another.
ExampleIf a candidate X at t1 had 28% of the popular vote, it is very likely that att2 he will be alos close to 28% once t1 and t2 are close to one another intime. Therefore, if one know θ for X at t1, this information would changeyour beliefs about the likely values for X at t2. Moreover, given thisinformation we would like to know the probability of X winning theelection.
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The Method
Bayesian inferenceThe estimand parameters are considered random variables, but theseare still related to one another.
ExampleIf a candidate X at t1 had 28% of the popular vote, it is very likely that att2 he will be alos close to 28% once t1 and t2 are close to one another intime. Therefore, if one know θ for X at t1, this information would changeyour beliefs about the likely values for X at t2. Moreover, given thisinformation we would like to know the probability of X winning theelection.
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The Method
Bayesian inferenceThe estimand parameters are considered random variables, but theseare still related to one another.Incorporate data from various sources as well as uncertaintiesassociated with the data.Prior distribution → Posterior distribution.
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The Method
Bayesian inferenceThe estimand parameters are considered random variables, but theseare still related to one another.Incorporate data from various sources as well as uncertaintiesassociated with the data.Prior distribution → Posterior distribution.
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Priors: Advertising slots
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Prior Distribution
Candidates αi Prior mean Prior var Prior sdSerra 280 0.28 0.101 0.317Haddad 270 0.27 0.099 0.314Russomanno 170 0.17 0.071 0.266Others 280 0.28 0.101 0.317
Total 1,000 1.00
(yt1:k) ∼ Multinomial(n, αt1:k).
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Evidence: Polling data
A poll by Vox Populi with 1,000 voters conducted roughly 15 monthsahead the election (13th July 2011) gave this:
Serra: 26%Russomanno: 14%Haddad: 2%Others: 58%
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Posterior Distribution
Candidates αi + yi Posterior mean Posterior var Prior sdSerra 540 0.27 0.066 0.256Haddad 290 0.15 0.041 0.203Russomanno 300 0.15 0.044 0.209Others 580 0.43 0.082 0.286
Total 2,000 1.00
p(αt1:k|yt1:k) ∼ Dirichlet(bt1:k + yt1:k).
p(αt1:k) =Γ(bt1:k)
Γ(bt1:k)αbt1:k−1t1:k . . . , αbtk−1
tk
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The Model
Weighted averageEach poll has its own precision: p = 1/σ2.DataFolha of n=3,959Ibope of n=1,204
y∗di =pDyD + pIyIpD + pI
(1)
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The Model
Predicting vote intentionsIgnorance about θ can be expressed by making the prior precision small.That is, by making prior variance σ20 large.
yi ∼ N(µi, σ2i ) (2)
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The Model
Predicting vote intentionsGiven that polls lack precision:
µi = αti + δji + ∆ (3)
where δj is the bias of polling firm j, an unknown parameter to beestimated. ∆ is an unknown parameter to be estimated of event change.
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The Model
Predicting vote intentionsTo model change in vote intentions, we use a random-walk model as that
αt ∼ N(αt−1, w2), t = 1, . . . , T (4)
where w2 is a linear interpolation component that detects eventdiscontinuity (before vs. after campaign advertising on TV).
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The Model
Predicting vote intentionsWith an uniform distribution of prior beliefs, that is before we see anypolling data:
αti ∼ Uniform(l, u) (5)
where l and u denotes lower and upper limits for the range of plausibleelectoral outcome for a candidate.
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Random-walk model (drunkard’s walk)
Candidates are the drunkardsStagger left(right) = gain(lose) support.Noisy signals = opinion polls.Kalman filtering: Learn about likely path given polling data.
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We know which bar you left
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Figura: We have a belief how a candidate would fare on the election before ittakes place
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We know the direction of travel
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Figura: We have a belief how a candidate would fare on the election before ittakes place
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We don’t know whether you staggered left or right
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Figura: We have a belief how a candidate would fare on the election before ittakes place
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We don’t know whether you staggered left or right
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We don’t know whether you staggered left or right
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We don’t know whether you staggered left or right
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Figura: We have a belief how a candidate would fare on the election before ittakes place
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We have a belief how a candidate would fare on the electionbefore it takes place
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Polls are noisy signals, but we can “learn” about most likelydeviations given these signals
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Computation
Computation detailsSoftware WinBugs (OpenBugs)The MCMC sampler was run on a single chain with an adaptationperiod (burn-in) of 100,000 iterations, followed by 500,000 iterationsin which every 500th draw was kept for the analysis.The resulting data set is a pooled sample of 1,000 valid cases(elections).
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Average estimates for the house effects parameters
Russomanno (PRB) Serra (PSDB) Haddad (PT)
Pollters Estimate 2.5% 97% Estimate 2.5% 97% Estimate 2.5% 97%
Datafolha 3.98 2.00 5.89 -2.14 -3.78 -0.39 -5.40 -7.09 -3.77
Ibope 3.51 1.50 5.69 -4.52 -6.34 -2.53 -4.88 -6.65 -3.00
Veritá 3.00 -0.09 6.17 -1.03 -3.77 1.97 -3.60 -6.16 -1.21
VoxPopuli 3.37 0.84 5.52 -3.58 -5.56 -1.38 -4.75 -6.97 -2.90
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Simulation Results
Average EstimatesCandidates Actual Last day(n=1,000)
Russomanno 18.84 20.20Serra 26.83 26.18Haddad 25.28 24.32Others 23.63 24.10Undecideds – 05.02
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Simulation Results: Share and pointwise for Russomanno(PRB)
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Simulation Outcomes: Share and pointwise for Serra(PSDB)
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Simulation Results: Share and pointwise for Haddad (PT)
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Simulation Results: Probabilities of Haddad (PT) beatRussomanno (PRB) and advance in the runnoff
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Conclusions
In Brazil as everywhere polls lack precision. Precision is mainlyaffected by two sources: sample size and house effects. After accountfor them, we could improve the predictions; consequently theinformation about the election.In Brazil, the institution of campaign advertising on TV and radio maycause significant breaks in vote intention, which needs to be modeledaccordingly, otherwise, a violation of the linearity assumption mayoccur.
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Where did the pollsters go wrong?
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Polls fielded over the last 3 weeks to the election
Average error
Mean Datafolha Ibope Veritá VoxPopuliCandidates Actual n=10 n=4 n=4 n=1 n=1
Russomanno 18.84 29.08 9.41 10.66 6.96 15.16Serra 26.83 20.84 -4.33 -7.58 -2.43 -9.83Haddad 25.28 18.25 -7.28 -6.03 -4.78 -8.28Others 23.63 24.53 6.09 8.49 7.19 2.23
Undecideds 7.30 5.75 8.00 5.00 13.00Actual vote is in bold face.
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Polls fielded over the week before the election
Average error
Mean Datafolha Ibope VeritáCandidates Actual n=5 n=2 n=2 n=1
Russomanno 18.84 24.56 5.15 5.66 6.96Serra 26.83 22.48 -3.33 -6.33 -2.43Haddad 25.28 19.90 -5.78 -5.28 -4.78Others 23.63 26.06 -2.05 -3.05 -4.75
Undecideds 7.00 6.00 9.00 5.00Actual vote is in bold face.
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