Given that one of the children in a two-child family is a boy, what are the chances that the other is also a boy. The intuitive answer is 50 : 50. More careful investigation leads us to a 1-in-3 chance. We investigate ...
The p* model is widely used in social network analysis. The likelihood of a network under this model is impossible to calculate for all but trivially small networks. Various approximation have been presented in the literature, ...
Many recent approaches to modeling social networks have focussed on embedding
the actors in a latent “social space”. Links are more likely for actors that are
close in social space than for actors that are distant in ...
Applicants to degree courses in Irish colleges and universities rank up to ten degree courses from a list of over five hundred. These data provide a wealth of
information concerning applicant degree choices. A Dirichlet ...