Learning models in social networks

• Main Author: Ho, Jack
• Other Authors: Tay Wee Peng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Mathematics and analysis::Simulations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85449; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50121
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis studies the problem of modeling learning through a set of agents connected via a social network. We first analyze a robust detection problem in a tandem network where agents sequentially receive private signals about the state of the world, as well as the decision of their predecesso...