Technology diffusion by learning from neighbours

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 355-376

  Chatterjee, Kalyan ^a   Xu, Susan H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Random walk; Social learning in networks; Technology diffusion

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; RANDOM WALK; SOCIAL LEARNING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 3142730015     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1086957576     Document Type: Article

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