A Measure of Bizarreness

Christopher Chambers and Alan Miller

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2010, vol. 5, issue 1, 27-44

Abstract: We introduce a path-based measure of convexity to be used in assessing the compactness of legislative districts. Our measure is the probability that a district contains the shortest path between a randomly selected pair of its points. The measure is defined relative to exogenous political boundaries and population distributions.

Date: 2010
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