Package: DescriptiveRepresentationCalculator
Title: Characterizing Observed and Expected Representation
Version: 1.2.0
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Connor", family = "Jerzak", 
		    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "connor.jerzak@gmail.com", 
	            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1914-8905")),
             person(given = "John", family = "Gerring", role = "aut", 
	           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9858-2050")),
             person(given = "Erzen", family = "Oncel", role = "aut", 
		    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9372-1090")) )
Description: A system for analyzing descriptive representation,
        especially for comparing the composition of a political body to
        the population it represents. Users can compute the expected
        degree of representation for a body under a random sampling
        model, the expected degree of representation variability, as
        well as representation scores from observed political bodies.
        The package also provides district-level benchmarks for
        expected representation in single-member district systems,
        where district compositions follow a Dirichlet distribution and
        seats are filled by random sampling or largest-group-wins
        affinity voting, as well as group-level representation
        diagnostics and comparisons between bodies. The package is
        based on Gerring, Jerzak, and Oncel (2024)
        <doi:10.1017/S0003055423000680>.
URL:
        https://github.com/cjerzak/DescriptiveRepresentationCalculator-software/
BugReports: https://github.com/cjerzak/DescriptiveRepresentationCalculator-software/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.3.3)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: stats
Suggests: knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Repository: https://cjerzak.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-10 02:25:52 UTC
RemoteUrl:
        https://github.com/cjerzak/descriptiverepresentationcalculator-software
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 50331945048488f308c318edc37b205e7e9d7de7
RemoteSubdir: DescriptiveRepresentationCalculator
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-08 08:04:43 UTC; root
Author: Connor Jerzak [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-8905>),
  John Gerring [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-2050>),
  Erzen Oncel [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9372-1090>)
Maintainer: Connor Jerzak <connor.jerzak@gmail.com>