Bc. Jozef Janovský
Master's thesis
Statistical Electoral Fraud Detection
Statistical Electoral Fraud Detection
Abstract:
A new academic discipline called election forensics has recently gained much popularity. It attempts to distiguish fraudulent from fraud-free elections by applying statistical methods to low-level election results. This thesis evaluates digital election forensics which seeks to find digital patterns, e.g. Benford’s law, in electoral data. Using a large empirical dataset I show that digital patterns …moreAbstract:
V ostatných rokoch sme zaznamenali rozmach akademickej disciplíny známej ako volebná forenzika. Tá sa snaží využitím štatistických metód na detailných volebných výsledkoch rozhodnúť či dané voľby boli zmanipulované alebo nie. Táto práca sa venuje zhodnoteniu validity volebnej forenziky založenej na číslicových distribúciách, a to najmä na tzv. Benfordovom zákone. Na rozsiahlom empirickom datasete ukazuje …more
Language used: Slovak
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 20. 5. 2015
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/z5i5h/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 8. 6. 2015
- Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Roman Chytilek, Ph.D.
- Reader: doc. Marek Rybář, M.A.
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Institution archiving the thesis and making it accessible: Masarykova univerzita, Fakulta sociálních studiíMasaryk University
Faculty of Social StudiesMaster programme / field:
Political Science / Political Science
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