Support repository for article "Quadratic Payments with constrained probabilities" originally posted on Medium (June 10th, 2020), rewritten in LaTeX on April 2021 to use a typesetting environment more suitable for this kind of content, and available on arXiv:2104.12700 (cs.GT) since April 27th, 2021.
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referendum_code.m contains unleashed Octave code defining p(y,n,i) and ∆p(y,n,i) and plotting graphs of the referendum model;
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BALLOT_PRECOMPUTED_PYs is a quite big archive (almost 1GB overall) of precomputed values of p(y,n,i) for the 101 x 1000 x 502 lattice domain defined by:
- y ∈ (0, 0.01, 0.02, ..., 1)
- n ∈ (1, 2, 3, ..., 1000)
- i ∈ (0, 1, 2, ..., 501)
It also hosts a second function defining p(y,n,i) in a more Octave-ish way, thanks to use of matrix algebra instead of almost all
forcycles.More details in folder's README.md file
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LATEX folder contains .tex source for the article, together with bibliography support files and PDF obtained with PdfLaTeX via TeXstudio
Even if function outputs represent probabilities (so values bounded in [0,1]), intermediate stages of implemented formulas can lead to overflow of double floating point numbers used by Octave, e.g. resulting in ∞⋅0 and NaN. The above lattice domain is almost the biggest currently allowed, for bigger ones code refactoring is an actual need.