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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Information cascades"”.
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New approaches to Characterizing and Forecasting Cascades
Cascades are a popular construct to observe and study information propagation (or diffusion) in social media such as Twitter and are defined using notions of influence, activity, or discourse commonality (e.g., hashtags). While these notions of cascades lead to different perspectives, primarily …
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Inference and Diffusion in Networks
… processes, and we focus on epidemic spread and information diffusion. We study these processes by applying and extending ideas from statistical inference. Inference, which focuses on estimation, testing, and uncertainty quantification, provides the mathematical tools to learn from data …
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Regulation of Synaptic Vesicle Trafficking at Central Synapses
Synapses are where electrical information is converted to chemical signaling, allowing for careful regulation of inter-neuronal communication in the brain. At presynaptic terminals, synaptic vesicles fuse with plasma membrane in response to electrical stimulation, followed by rapid retrieval to the …
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Rationales Herdenverhalten - Theorie, Empirie und Lösungsansätze
… wird rationales Herdenverhalten anhand der Informationskaskadenmodelle sowie der Reputationsmodelle (Prinzipal-Agent-Kontext bei Existenz relativer Leistungsbewertung) analysiert. Im Bereich der Theorie wird die Frage beantwortet, welche Annahmen unverzichtbar sind für das Auftreten von …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… not substantially higher than that of the full-information benchmark. Equally, it prevents centres accepting organs of poor quality, such that, overall, the benefits derived from observing predecessors' decisions outweigh the costs of herding traditionally emphasised in the theoretical …