3 papers
cs.LG2026
Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
physics.soc-ph2025
The origins of large-scale structure in family networks
Lasse Mohr, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sune Lehmann
Family relations are the most fundamental of all social networks and encompass everyone. Family networks grow as individuals have children, creating connections between families, w…
physics.soc-ph2024
Long-Time and Short-Time Dynamics in a Weighted-Median Opinion Model on Networks
Lasse Mohr, Poul G. Hjorth, Mason A. Porter
Social interactions influence people's opinions. In some situations, these interactions eventually yield a consensus opinion; in others, they can lead to opinion fragmentation and…