most citedCan you Trust the Trend: Discovering Simpson's Paradoxes in Social Data

6 citations · 7 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CY2018

Predicting and Explaining Behavioral Data with Structured Feature Space Decomposition

Peter G Fennell, Zhiya Zuo, Kristina Lerman

Modeling human behavioral data is challenging due to its scale, sparseness (few observations per individual), heterogeneity (differently behaving individuals), and class imbalance…

physics.soc-ph2018

Degree Correlations Amplify the Growth of Cascades in Networks

Xin-Zeng Wu, Peter G. Fennell, Allon G. Percus +1

Networks facilitate the spread of cascades, allowing a local perturbation to percolate via interactions between nodes and their neighbors. We investigate how network structure affe…

cs.CY2018

Using Simpson's Paradox to Discover Interesting Patterns in Behavioral Data

Nazanin Alipourfard, Peter G. Fennell, Kristina Lerman

We describe a data-driven discovery method that leverages Simpson's paradox to uncover interesting patterns in behavioral data. Our method systematically disaggregates data to iden…

cs.CY20186 cited

Can you Trust the Trend: Discovering Simpson's Paradoxes in Social Data

Nazanin Alipourfard, Peter G. Fennell, Kristina Lerman

We investigate how Simpson's paradox affects analysis of trends in social data. According to the paradox, the trends observed in data that has been aggregated over an entire popula…

physics.soc-ph20171 cited

Multistate dynamical processes on networks: Analysis through degree-based approximation frameworks

Peter G. Fennell, James P. Gleeson

Multistate dynamical processes on networks, where nodes can occupy one of a multitude of discrete states, are gaining widespread use because of their ability to recreate realistic,…