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most citedKinetics of Social Contagion

111 citations

11 papers

stat.AP2022

Estimating Importation Risk of Covid-19 in Hurricane Evacuations: A Prediction Framework Applied to Hurricane Laura in Texas

Michelle Audirac, Mauricio Tec, Enrique Garcia-Tejeda +1

In August 2020, as Texas was coming down from a large summer COVID-19 surge, forecasts suggested that Hurricane Laura was tracking towards 6M residents along the East Texas coastli…

math.AP2021

Método de Regularización para Identificar una Fuente en una Ecuación Elíptica

Guillermo Federico Umbricht, Diana Rubio

The aim of this paper is to numerically study the performance of a method of regularization. This technique was developed to solve the illposed problem of estimating a source-dimen…

stat.CO2021★ 5 cited

A Tutorial on Time-Dependent Cohort State-Transition Models in R using a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Example

Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eline M. Krijkamp, Eva A. Enns +4

In an introductory tutorial, we illustrated building cohort state-transition models (cSTMs) in R, where the state transitions probabilities were constant over time. However, in pra…

econ.TH2021★ 13 cited

A Pricing Mechanism to Jointly Mitigate Market Power and Environmental Externalities in Electricity Markets

Lamia Varawala, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, György Dán +2

The electricity industry has been one of the first to face technological changes motivated by sustainability concerns. Whilst efficiency aspects of market design have tended to foc…

stat.AP2020★ 38 cited

An Introductory Tutorial on Cohort State-Transition Models in R Using a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Example

Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Eline M. Krijkamp, Eva A. Enns +4

Decision models can combine information from different sources to simulate the long-term consequences of alternative strategies in the presence of uncertainty. A cohort state-trans…

stat.AP2019★ 7 cited

Characterization and valuation of uncertainty of calibrated parameters in stochastic decision models

Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Amy B. Knudsen, Jonathan Ozik +2

We evaluated the implications of different approaches to characterize uncertainty of calibrated parameters of stochastic decision models (DMs) in the quantified value of such uncer…

stat.AP2019★ 46 cited

Calculating the Expected Value of Sample Information in Practice: Considerations from Three Case Studies

Anna Heath, Natalia R. Kunst, Christopher Jackson +6

Investing efficiently in future research to improve policy decisions is an important goal. Expected Value of Sample Information (EVSI) can be used to select the specific design and…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 19 cited

Universal temporal features of rankings in competitive sports and games

José A. Morales, Sergio Sánchez, Jorge Flores +5

Many complex phenomena, from the selection of traits in biological systems to hierarchy formation in social and economic entities, show signs of competition and heterogeneous perfo…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 64 cited

Local cascades induced global contagion: How heterogeneous thresholds, exogenous effects, and unconcerned behaviour govern online adoption spreading

Márton Karsai, Gerardo Iñiguez, Riivo Kikas +2

Adoption of innovations, products or online services is commonly interpreted as a spreading process driven to large extent by social influence and conditioned by the needs and capa…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 32 cited

Dynamics of deceptive interactions in social networks

Rafael A. Barrio, Tzipe Govezensky, Robin Dunbar +2

In this paper we examine the role of lies in human social relations by implementing some salient characteristics of deceptive interactions into an opinion formation model, so as to…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 111 cited

Kinetics of Social Contagion

Zhongyuan Ruan, Gerardo Iniguez, Marton Karsai +1

Diffusion of information, behavioral patterns or innovations follows diverse pathways depending on a number of conditions, including the structure of the underlying social network,…