Cultural consensus theory: Aggregating expert judgments about ties in a social network

Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 24-32

  Batchelder, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIRECTED GRAPHS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

CONSENSUS THEORY; EXPERT JUDGMENT; INFORMATION AGGREGATION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MOST LIKELY; SET OF QUESTIONS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900082091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0056-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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