ayyadurai-2.5.ipynb

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    "Now let's simulate some per-precinct votes and collect % of Trump votes from split-ticket voters.\n",
    "\n",
    "This can be sampled a a bunch of weighted coinflips with the probability $p({trump})$--i.e, sampling from a binomial distribution."
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    "# let's say we're dealing with a fixed size of split-ticket voters in each precinct\n",
    "split_pop_size = 100 \n",
    "split_votes = np.random.binomial(split_pop_size, p_trump, num_precincts) # simulating\n",
    "split_trump_percentage = split_votes / split_pop_size"
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