#  Predicting Elections 

 





October 31, 2006

 

 

Jacob Eisenstein at MIT has developed an smart election predictor for the US Senate Elections using a Kalman Filter. The filter helps to decide how much extra weight to attach to more recent polls. Check it out [here](http://people.csail.mit.edu/jacobe/elections/senate.html); he also has some details on the method [here](http://people.csail.mit.edu/jacobe/elections/explanation.html).

Posted by [Sebastian Bauhoff](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/sebastian-bauhoff/) at October 31, 2006 2:01 PM



 

 

 



 

 

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