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Table 9 Lasso Regression results for parliamentary elections in 2019-2020

From: Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data

 

Country Ideology

Dalton Polarization

Country

Real

Prediction

Error

Real

Prediction

RMSE

Austria

5.512

5.435

0.077

3.928

4.139

−0.211

Belgium

5.324

5.641

−0.317

5.005

4.677

0.328

Croatia

5.894

5.755

0.139

4.385

4.494

−0.109

Denmark

5.260

5.051

0.209

4.666

4.707

−0.041

Estonia

5.842

5.267

0.575

3.886

2.985

0.901

Finland

5.353

5.592

−0.239

3.485

3.594

−0.109

Greece

4.781

4.813

−0.032

4.371

4.246

0.125

Ireland

4.583

4.644

−0.061

3.645

3.367

0.278

Lithuania

5.283

5.059

0.224

3.938

3.273

0.665

Poland

6.351

6.154

0.197

3.383

3.368

0.015

Portugal

4.580

4.407

0.173

3.627

3.616

0.011

Romania

5.441

5.808

−0.367

3.364

3.250

0.114

Slovakia

6.465

6.111

0.354

3.720

3.629

0.091

Spain

5.271

4.960

0.311

5.195

5.326

−0.131

United Kingdom

5.722

5.623

0.099

3.447

3.838

−0.391

 

Country Ideology

Dalton Polarization

RMSE

0.264

0.338