On the size of a rumour

Ray Watson

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1987, vol. 27, 141-149

Abstract: Two rumour models are considered, the first due to Daley and Kendall (1965) and the second due to Maki and Thompson (1973). The size of a rumour, defined as the number of individuals in the population eventually hearing the rumour, is investigated using both deterministic and stochastic approximations, and some asymptotic distributional results for the size distribution for the two models are obtained and compared.

Keywords: rumour; deterministic; stochastic; martingale; approximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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