Sensitivity to noise variance in a social network dynamics model

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-247

  Banks, H T ^a   Karr, A F ^b   Nguyen, H K ^a   Samuels, Jr ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS; DYNAMIC FEATURES; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE VARIANCE; STOCHASTIC ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 46849102551     PISSN: 0033569X     EISSN: 15524485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0033-569X-08-01124-0     Document Type: Article

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