Abstract
The assumption of transitivity treated in part I is modified in various ways to describe an information-diffusion process, in which a certain amount of randomness of contact does occur. In one model a parameter is introduced which is indicative of a tendency to go beyond one's immediate vicinity to spread the information as the vicinity becomes saturated with knowers. In another model the randomness appears in the assumption that new knowers are uniformly distributed among the knowers. Two of the equations thus derived, each with two free parameters are in good agreement with experimental results.
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Rapoport, A. Spread of information through a population with socio-structural bias: II. Various models with partial transitivity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 15, 535–546 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476441
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