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Friendship paradox

Known as: Follower Paradox 
The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that most people have fewer friends than their… 
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2019
2019
The friendship paradox in scale-free network
Our friends have more friends than we do. That is the basis of the friendship paradox. In mathematical terms, the mean number of… 
2018
2018
Target Tracking using Friendship Paradox
This paper considers the problem of target tracking using a network of social agents (ex. human operators). The target is assumed… 
2017
2017
The Two Regimes of Neutral Evolution: Localization on Hubs and Delocalized Diffusion
It has been argued that much of evolution takes place in the absence of fitness gradients. Such periods of evolution can be… 
2016
2016
Detecting most central actors of an unknown network using friendship paradox
Most central people have more influence on business communication, knowledge diffusion, viral marketing and some other fields… 
2015
2015
The H-index paradox: your coauthors have a higher H-index than you do
One interesting phenomenon that emerges from the typical structure of social networks is the friendship paradox. It states that… 
2015
2015
2 The friendship paradox and models of disease transmission on contact networks
Why do your friends have more friends than you do? The question may sound offensive. We don’t even know you. How can we assume… 
2015
2015
Closed Form Solution for a Specific Case on the Friendship Paradox
It is a common feeling among people that their friends are more popular than them. With social networking sites like Facebook… 
2014
2014
Friendship Paradox and Attention Economics
The friendship paradox is revisited by considering both local and global averages of friends. How the economics of attention… 
2014
2014
An Empirical Analysis of the Happiness Paradox-Your friends are happier than you are
The friendship paradox states that “your friends have more friends than you, on average.” This paradoxical effect can be a result… 
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2003
Review
2003
What MakesYou Think You ’ re SoPopular ? Self-Evaluation Maintenanceand the SubjectiveSide of the “ Friendship Paradox ”
Wereporton asurveyofundergraduatesatthe UniversityofChicagoin which respondentswereaskedto assesstheirpopularity relativeto… 
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