Is the Voter Model a Model for Voters?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Fernández Gracia, Juan ^a   Suchecki, Krzysztof ^b   Ramasco, José J ^a   San Miguel, Maxi ^a   Eguíluz, Víctor M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS;

DIFFUSIVE PROCESS; OPINION DYNAMICS; POPULATION DIVERSITY; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84899029737     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.158701     Document Type: Article

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