Appendix B.

Appendix B: Technical Notes

Because several individuals can share the same first initial and last name, a verification procedure was performed so as not to incorrectly attribute an article to an individual. The procedure involved matching certain information on an article’s authors reported by the ISI with information provided by the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR), which comprised the frame for the publication sampl...

B On - Line Appendix

This on-line Appendix complements “Persuading Voters” by Ricardo Alonso and Odilon Câmara (PV henceforth). It provides additional results and discusses extensions of the model. Section B.1 describes the general model. Section B.2 presents additional results. Section B.3 presents extensions of the model. Section B.4 discusses relevant applications and examples. Section B.5 describes an alternati...

Appendix B.2

17 Appendix B

The exponential distribution is also the continuous analog of the geometric distribution in the following sense. In an experiment where the binomial distribution describes the number of successes in n trials, the geometric distribution describes the number of trials necessary for one success. In an experiment where the Poisson distribution describes the number of random occurrences of some even...

Appendix B: Technical Notes

Because several individuals can share the same first initial and last name, a verification procedure was performed so as not to incorrectly attribute an article to an individual. The procedure involved matching certain information on an article’s authors reported by the ISI with information provided by the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR), which comprised the frame for the publication sampl...