Entropy and the predictability of online life

Entropy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 543-556

  Sinatra, Roberta ^a   Szell, Michael ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Human behavior; Mobility; Online games; Social dynamics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893189759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e16010543     Document Type: Article

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