Modeling the infectiousness of Twitter hashtags

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 465, Issue , 2017, Pages 289-296

  Skaza, Jonathan ^a   Blais, Brian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information diffusion; MCMC; SIR; SIRI; Trending; Twitter dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BAYESIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MCMC; METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES; SIRI; STATISTICAL MODELING; TRENDING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84984801441     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.08.038     Document Type: Article

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