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Title: Supplementary Appendix: How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know it When You See it

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: We define many useful existing compactness measures, and other geometric features of legislative districts we introduce. We use all of these quantities in Section 3.2. We begin with basic notation used in many of the measures and then define the measures. Notation Denote a generic legislative district as D, and define it as a non-self-intersecting closed polygon with n vertices, each labeled (xi , yi) and numbered i in clockwise order (for i = 1, . . . , n). We choose an arbitrary starting vertex for label i = 1 and (using clock or modular algebra) define i = n + 1 = 1. The length of . . .

Url: https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/compact_supplement.pdf

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Authors: Kaufman, Aaron; King, Gary; Komisarchik, Mayya

Publisher: Harvard University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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