The "majority illusion" in social networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Lerman, Kristina ^a   Yan, Xiaoran ^a,c   Wu, Xin Zeng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ILLUSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRTUAL REALITY; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84960879227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147617     Document Type: Article

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