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On quantum models for opinion and voting intention polls

Physics and Society 2024-11-22 v1

Abstract

In this contribution, we construct a connection between two quantum voting models presented previously. We propose to try to determine the result of a vote from associated given opinion polls. We introduce a density operator relative to the family of all candidates to a particular election. From an hypothesis of proportionality between a family of coefficients which characterize the density matrix and the probabilities of vote for all the candidates, we propose a numerical method for the entire determination of the density operator. This approach is a direct consequence of the Perron-Frobenius theorem for irreductible positive matrices. We applyour algorithm to synthetic data and to operational results issued from the French presidential election of April 2012.

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@article{arxiv.2411.13593,
  title  = {On quantum models for opinion and voting intention polls},
  author = {François Dubois},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13593},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2411.10041

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