Objective probability estimates the odds of an event occurring through data analysis. It uses concrete measures instead of guesses to provide a reliable forecast.

We highlight why transparency matters in opinion polling — plus more from two recent webinars with the Roper Center.

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Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...

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ABSTRACT: Multilevel modeling (MLM) has emerged as a powerful statistical framework for analyzing complex data structures with nested relationships. With its hierarchical modeling approach, MLM ...

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Researchers are struggling with the challenge of causal discovery in heterogeneous time-series data, where a single causal model cannot capture diverse causal mechanisms. Traditional methods for ...

Last December, a joint survey by The Economist and the polling organization YouGov claimed to reveal a striking antisemitic streak among America’s youth. One in five young Americans thinks the ...