Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Crane, Riley ^a,b   Schweitzer, Frank ^a   Sornette, Didier ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; HUMAN RESPONSE; POWER LAW; PRIORITY QUEUING; SUMATRA; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77952014039     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056101     Document Type: Article

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