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Collective failure? Lessons from combining forecasts for the UK's referendum on EU membership

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Research on election forecasting suggests there are benefits from combining different sources of information. This paper discusses the experience of a combined forecasting method that was developed for the UK's EU referendum in 2016. The sources included opinion polls, vote expectation surveys, prediction and betting markets, expert and volunteer forecasts, and various forecasting models based on polling and other kinds of data. Averages of sources within each of these categories all, in our ...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1080/17457289.2017.1380656

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Trinity College
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Author
Publisher:
Routledge Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Journal website
Volume:
28
Issue:
1
Pages:
59-77
Publication date:
2017-09-21
Acceptance date:
2017-09-11
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EISSN:
1745-7297
ISSN:
1745-7289
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pubs:729255
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uuid:612d49a8-4ed5-4ad5-b835-61f6b7ceea05
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pubs:729255
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729255
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2017-09-18

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