Ecological Inference: Deciphering Individual Voting Behavior from Aggregated Data

blended course

Political scientists, the media and political parties, among other actors, are interested in understanding the electoral behaviour of different subgroups of the population and in having estimates of vote transfer matrices at the global and local levels. Ecological inference provides an answer to this problem by exploiting aggregate data. In this course, offered by RECSM, we will show the most advanced techniques for deciphering the inference, focusing on the use of the R package lphom.

Course leader

Professor Jose Pavia from the University of Valencia

Target group

Political science academics, policy researchers, policy analysts, data scientists.

Course aim

The main objective of this course is to teach the use of the R package lphom and its multiple functions as a tool to answer questions about the electoral behaviour of different population subgroups.

Fee info

EUR 250: Student price.
EUR 400: Researcher price.

Scholarships

30% discount for members of WAPOR LATAM