class svvamp.GeneratorProfileIanc(n_v, n_c, sort_voters=False)

Profile generator: Impartial, Anonymous and Neutral Culture.

Cf. Eğecioğlu, Ömer & Giritligil, Ayça E. (2013). The impartial, anonymous, and neutral culture model: a probability model for sampling public preference structures. The Journal of mathematical sociology, 37(4), 203-222.

The code is adapted from:

• A Mathematica program by Ömer Eğecioğlu: https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~omer/randomvote.nb.

• The Python function accel_asc by Jerome Kelleher: https://jeromekelleher.net/generating-integer-partitions.html.

Parameters:

• n_v (int) – Number of voters.

• n_c (int) – Number of candidates.

• sort_voters (bool) – This argument is passed to Profile.

Examples

>>> np.random.seed(42)
>>> generator = GeneratorProfileIanc(n_v=10, n_c=3)
>>> profile = generator()
>>> profile.preferences_rk.shape
(10, 3)