Voting with Rank Dependent Scoring Rules

J. Goldsmith, J. Lang, N. Mattei, P. Perny

Election type Ordinal
Culture Mallows Mixture
Candidates [3-8]
Voters {10}
The paper mentions experiments for sizes [3,8]x{20,30} as giving similar results.
Instances 1000
Elections were sampled to ensure that the original outcome is different than the manipulator’s preferences (by discarding samples that did not satisfy the condition).
Parameters Mixture model uses 5 components. Unclear how the parameters of the mixtures are selected.