Rice index
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The Rice index is an "Agreement Level" (AL) measure indicating the degree of agreement or roll-call cohesion within any sized voting body, with values between 0 (stalemate) and 1 (consensus). [1]
It is named for Stuart A. Rice (1889-1969), Chairman of the United States Central Statistical Board, president of the American Statistical Association in 1933 and Assistant Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Bureau of the Budget from 1940-1955. [2]
Formula
The formula is often used in the social sciences, and is the ratio of the difference between majority and minority to the sum of majority and minority.[3]
Yes = Number of yes votes, No = Number of votes against.
References
- ^ Born, Richard; Nevison, Christopher (1974). "The Agreement Level Measure, and the Rice Index of Cohesion Revisited". American Journal of Political Science. 18 (3): 617–624. JSTOR 2110636.
- ^ "The American Satistician". 1969.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Rice, Stuart A. (1938). "Quantitative Methods in Politics". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 33 (201): 126–130. JSTOR 2279119.
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