The program is developed in Ruby, and the scripts to run it are Unix scripts
using /bin/sh.
You can install this program by cloning this repository, and then executing the commands from the following sections in the directory where it got cloned.
The latest release is a beta version, and has version number 0.1b1. Use the tag
v0.1b1 to check it out after you've cloned the repository, and build and
install the program using the following commands:
sudo gem build sapor.gemspec
sudo gem install sapor-0.1b1.gem
bin/create_installation_package.sh
tar -xzf sapor-0.1b1.tar.gz
cd sapor-0.1b1/
sudo ./install.sh
The most recent version, currently under development, is an alpha version. It resides in the master branch, and has version number 0.2a1. You can build it using the following commands:
sudo gem build sapor.gemspec
sudo gem install sapor-0.2a1.gem
bin/create_installation_package.sh
tar -xzf sapor-0.2a1.tar.gz
cd sapor-0.2a1/
sudo ./install.sh
Simply call sapor or sapor help to get instructions on how to use the
program.
See this page.
See this page.
Version 0.2
- Included more data in the calculation of the error estimate.
- Added the Type field with values Election and Referendum. Polls of type Referendum do not try to calculate a seat distribution.
- Areas: Added Flanders.
- Areas: Added Greece with a simplified approach to the parliamentary elections.
- Areas: Added Norwegian municipalities Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim, local election, 2015.
Version 0.1
- First round analysis of poll results as a set of dichotomies, reporting on the most probable fraction, the 95% confidence interval for the vote share, and probability to reach a threshold.
- Second round analysis of poll results as a polychotomy, reporting on the most probable fraction, the most probable rounded fraction, the 95% confidence interval for the vote share, the probability to be larger than the next party, the 95% confidence interval for the number of seats in parliament, and for coalitions the most probable fraction, the most probable rounded fraction, the 95% confidence interval for the vote share, the probability to have a majority of the popular vote (vote share larger than 50%), the 95% confidence interval for the number of seats and the probability to have a majority in parliament.
- Areas: Catalan parliamentary election, 2015.
Statistical Analysis of Polling Results (SAPoR) Copyright (C) 2020 Filip van Laenen [email protected]
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.