Opinion dynamics driven by various ways of averaging

Computational Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-405

  Hegselmann, Rainer ^a   Krause, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstract means; Averaging; Bounded confidence; Opinion dynamics; Power mean; Random mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144447271     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-005-6296-3     Document Type: Article

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