Stochastic network formation and homophily
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چکیده
This is a chapter of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1505.06484 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015