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Neutral evolution and turnover over centuries of English word popularity
Damian Ruck, R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi +2
Here we test Neutral models against the evolution of English word frequency and vocabulary at the population scale, as recorded in annual word frequencies from three centuries of E…
Nowcasting economic and social data: when and why search engine data fails, an illustration using Google Flu Trends
Paul Ormerod, Rickard Nyman, R Alexander Bentley
Obtaining an accurate picture of the current state of the economy is particularly important to central banks and finance ministries, and of epidemics to health ministries. There is…
Social network markets: the influence of network structure when consumers face decisions over many similar choices
Paul Ormerod, Bassel Tarbush, R. Alexander Bentley
In social network markets, the act of consumer choice in these industries is governed not just by the set of incentives described by conventional consumer demand theory, but by the…
Were people imitating others or exercising rational choice in on-line searches for 'swine flu'?
R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod
Two general patterns have been identified for the adoption and subsequent abandonment of ideas or products within a population. One is symmetric, so that concepts or products which…
An evolutionary model of long tailed distributions in the social sciences
R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod, Michael Batty
Studies of collective human behavior in the social sciences, often grounded in details of actions by individuals, have much to offer `social' models from the physical sciences conc…
Tradition versus fashion in consumer choice
R. Alexander Bentley, P. Ormerod
Evidence is growing that in many markets consumers select not simply on the basis of the perceived attributes of products, but their preferences are modified by the behaviour of ot…