--- title: "Other Measures" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Other Measures} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) ``` Redistricting is problem with many, many dimensions. This vignette introduces some useful measures related to redistricting, but with smaller categories. See the vignette "Using `redistmetrics`" for the bare-bones of the package. We first load the `redistmetrics` package and data from New Hampshire. For any function, the `shp` argument can be swapped out for your data, `rvote` and `dvote` for any two party votes, `pop_black` for any group population, `pop` for the total population, and the `plans` argument can be swapped out for your redistricting plans (be it a single plan, a matrix of plans, or a `redist_plans` object). ```{r setup} library(redistmetrics) data(nh) ``` ## Competitiveness ### Talismanic Compactness This is a measure which offers a balance between competitiveness across the state and competitiveness within individual districts. Formally, this can be written as: $$\textrm{Talismanic Competitiveness} = T_p (1 + \alpha T_e)\beta$$ where $$ T_p = \frac{1}{n_d} * \sum_{k=1}^{n_\textrm{dists}} \big|\frac12 - \textrm{voteshare}_D\big|$$ $$ T_e = |\frac{n_\textrm{dists} - Seats_D}{n_\textrm{dists}}-\frac12| $$ Talismanic Compactness can be computed with ```{r} compet_talisman(plans = nh$r_2020, shp = nh, rvote = nrv, dvote = ndv) ``` where `nrv` and `ndv` are averages of votes. (In general, you want to compute these scores over many elections and average them.) ## Segregation ### Dissimilarity Dissimilarity describes how similar the demographic proportions in districts are to the total state population's demographics. Formally, this can be written as: $$ \textrm{Dissimilarity} = \sum_{i = 1}^{n_\textrm{dists}} \frac{(t_d |g_d - G|)}{2T*G(1 - G)}$$ for a group population proportion in district $d$, $g_d$, total population in district $d$, $t_d$, a group population proportion in a state $G$, and total population in the state $T$. Dissimilarity can be computed with: ```{r} seg_dissim(plans = nh$r_2020, shp = nh, group_pop = pop_black, total_pop = pop) ``` ## Incumbents ### Incumbent Pairings We compute incumbent pairings as the number of incumbents who are placed into a district with other incumbents beyond those allowed. Formally, this is: $$\textrm{Inc. Pairs} = \sum_{d = 1}^{\textrm{ndists}}\max(0, ~n^{(d)}_{inc} - 1)$$ We do not have incumbent data included for New Hampshire. As such, we create fake incumbent data. ```{r} fake_inc <- rep(FALSE, nrow(nh)) fake_inc[c(1, 2)] <- TRUE ``` This would indicate that there are only incumbents in the first two rows of the data. Incumbent pairings can be computed with: ```{r} inc_pairs(plans = nh$r_2020, shp = nh, inc = fake_inc) ```