A Friend Like Me: Modeling Network Formation in a Location-Based Social Network

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1008-1033

  Lee, Gene Moo ^a   Qiu, Liangfei ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; NETWORK FORMATION; PROXIMITY MEASURE; STRATEGIC NETWORK FORMATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED TEXTS;

LOCATION;

EID: 85012164815     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2016.1267523     Document Type: Article

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