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Combining Forecasts for the 2021 German Federal Election: The PollyVote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

Andreas Graefe*
Affiliation:
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich

Abstract

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Type
Forecasting the 2021 German Elections
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

This is an updated version of the original article. For details please see the notice at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521001797.

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