Estimation of causal peer influence effects

30th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2013

Volumn , Issue PART 3, 2013, Pages 2539-2547

  Toulis, Panos ^a   Kao, Edward ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN PROCEDURES; COMPLEX RESPONSE; ESTIMATION PRECISION; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; NETWORK UNCERTAINTIES; POTENTIAL OUTCOMES; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84897516621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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