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Projective Averages for Summarizing Redistricting Ensembles
Cory McCartan
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A recurring challenge in the application of redistricting simulation algorithms lies in extracting useful summaries and comparisons from a large ensemble of districting plans. Researchers often compute summary statistics for each district in a plan, and then study their distribution across the plans in the ensemble. This approach discards rich geographic information that is inherent in districting plans. We introduce the projective average, an operation that projects a district-level summary statistic back to the underlying geography and then averages this statistic across plans in the ensemble. Compared to traditional district-level summaries, projective averages are a powerful tool for geographically granular, sub-district analysis of districting plans along a variety of dimensions. However, care must be taken to account for variation within redistricting ensembles, to avoid misleading conclusions. We propose and validate a multiple-testing procedure to control the probability of incorrectly identifying outlier plans or regions when using projective averages.
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