Taking into account the variations of neighbourhood sizes in the mean-field approximation of the threshold model on a random network

JASSS

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Huet, Sylvie ^a   Edwards, Margaret ^a   Deffuant, Guillaume ^a  

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Author keywords

Aggregate; Individual based model; Innovation diffusion; Mean field approximation; Model comparison; Social network effect

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EID: 33846830022     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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