Social influence cannot be identified from purely observational data on social networks,
because such influence is generically confounded with latent homophily, that is, with a …

With the rapid growth of online social network sites (SNSs), it has become imperative for
platform owners and online marketers to quantify what factors drive content production on …

This study explores the role of online engagement, homophily and social influence in
explaining traffic and news consumption by social network users at an external news …

The increased awareness about the presence of social effects in consumer networks has
inspired marketers to better understand and address the needs of their consumers through …

Understanding and quantifying the factors that lead to cheating in society is problematic, due
to the inherent desire to hide socially unacceptable actions. While significant progress has …

Peer influence and homophily are two entangled forces underlying social influences.
However, distinguishing homophily from peer influence is difficult, particularly when there is …

Evaluating the impact of policy interventions on respondents who are embedded in a social
network is often challenging due to the presence of network interference within the treatment …

The contagion effect, also known as the peer effect, plays a significant role in social
networks. It refers to the phenomenon in which one person or group can influence the …

In this paper, a robust blind watermarking method for 3-D volumes is presented. A bivalued
watermark is embedded in the Fourier transform magnitude of the 3-D volume. The Fourier …

Social influence or social contagion plays a vital role in many stages of customer journey,
from product adoption (Risselada et al., 2014), to repeated purchases (Iyengar et al., 2015) …