Quantifying the effects of social influence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mavrodiev, Pavlin ^a   Tessone, Claudio J ^a   Schweitzer, Frank ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84875186859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01360     Document Type: Article

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