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The proportion of the population never hearing a rumour
Abstract
For a model of a rumour, first given a non-rigorous treatment by Maki and Thompson, it is shown that the proportion of the population never hearing the rumour converges in probability to 0.203 as the population size tends to∞.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sudbury, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Probability
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1985-06
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 02
- Pages
- 443-446
- ISSN
- 0021-9002 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-6072
- OpenAlex
- W2326969478
- Cited by
- 209
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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