@cfrank Good question. I'm not sure I can think of one place that gives a good intro to all the stuff. Anything I know I've picked up piecemeal over the years, and there isn't really that much about proportional cardinal methods in general I'd say. The stuff on the Electowiki could probably do with being massively overhauled.

Obviously the Thiele and Phragmén methods have been around for over a century but academic research into this type of method only really picked up again relatively recently, and dry academic papers aren't the best place for a beginner to learn about them anyway.

Edit - Maybe I could start a thread with some basic info. Others can add to it and can also take issue with anything they might disagree with!

Also I've been doing some work on my COWPEA paper to see if I can get it to publication standard. So hopefully that will happen at some point.

The paper has been updated and some errors corrected.

@toby-pereira said in General stuff about approval/cardinal PR:

This project hasn't purely been altruistic - it's been helpful to me by laying everything out for reworking my COWPEA paper!

And the new version can be seen here (as I mentioned in the separate COWPEA thread anyway).