Quantifying social influence in an online cultural market

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Krumme, Coco ^a   Cebrian, Manuel ^a   Pickard, Galen ^a   Pentland, Sandy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSIC; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL NETWORK; HUMAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84860748202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033785     Document Type: Article

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