Understanding Distance Measures Among Elections

N. Boehmer, P. Faliszewski, R. Niedermeier, S. Szufa, T. Was

Election type Ordinal
Culture Mallows
Candidates {10}
Voters {50}
Instances None
The number of samples is: (20 + 60 + 60) + (3 * 20 + 20) + 4 * 20 + (20 + 20) = 340
Parameters classic Mallows model (we used the same sampling protocol as Boehmer et al. [2021b] - Putting a compass on the map of elections)
Section 6. To get a feeling as to how much precision is lost due to various aggregate representations, in Table 1 we compare the number of ANECs and the numbers of equivalence classes of the positionwise, pairwise, and Bordawise metrics, for small elections; we computed the table using exhaustive search.