audit.plan {elec}

Audit Plans for CAST and Trinomial Methods

Description

An audit.plan is returned by CAST.calc.sample, containing details of how to audit for a desired level of confidence. It has a print method for pretty output.

The audit.plan.tri, similarly, is an object that holds information about conduting a PPEB election audit, in particular an audit that will use the trinomial bound to analyze resultant audit data. It is what is returned by the tri.calc.sample method.

Theoretically, auditors will use the plan and go out and generate actual audit data. (You can fake it with simulations–see make.truth.) The audit data should be stored in a new data frame with new vote totals, or overstatements, for the candidates in the audited precincts. To convert from totals to overstatements, use audit.totals.to.OS. You can store that in a elec.data object under “audit”, or keep it seperate.

Usage

is.audit.plan(x)

## S3 method for class 'audit.plan'
print(x, ...)

is.audit.plan.tri(x)

## S3 method for class 'audit.plan.tri'
print(x, ...)

Arguments

x

object to check

...

No extra options passed.

audit.plan

to print.

audit.plan.tri

to print.

Value

is.audit.plan: TRUE if object is an audit.plan object.

print: No return value; prints results.

is.audit.plan.tri: TRUE if object is an audit.plan.tri object.

print: No return value; prints results.

Author(s)

Luke W. Miratrix

See Also

CAST.calc.sample tri.calc.sample