A study on the friendship paradox – quantitative analysis and relationship with assortative mixing

Abstract The friendship paradox is the observation that friends of individuals tend to have more friends or be more popular than the individuals themselves. In this work, we first study local metrics to capture the strength of the paradox and the direction of the paradox from the perspective of indi...

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Main Authors: Siddharth Pal, Feng Yu, Yitzchak Novick, Ananthram Swami, Amotz Bar-Noy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-019-0190-8