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On a daley-kendall model of random rumours

B. Pittel
- 01 Mar 1990 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 1, pp 14-27
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In this article, it was shown that the number of eventual knowers is asymptotically normal with mean and variance linear in a population consisting of N individuals, and the conjecture was confirmed.
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Suppose that a certain population consists of N individuals. One member initially learns a rumour from an outside source, and starts telling it to other members, who continue spreading the information. A knower becomes inactive once he encounters somebody already informed. Daley and Kendall, who initiated the study of this model, conjectured that the number of eventual knowers is asymptotically normal with mean and variance linear in N. Our purpose is to confirm this conjecture.

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