Leveraging position bias to improve peer recommendation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lerman, Kristina ^a   Hogg, Tad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Molecular Manufacturing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE BIAS; INTERNET; PEER GROUP; POSITION BIAS; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MEDIA; HUMAN; PROBABILITY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; PEER GROUP; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84903390297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098914     Document Type: Article

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