Preferential Attachment Process
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A Preferential Attachment Process is a Citation Dynamics that ...
- See: Power Law, Citation Dynamics, Udny Yule, Matthew Effect (Sociology), Gibrat's Law, Scale-Free Graph.
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2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/preferential_attachment Retrieved:2017-7-25.
- A preferential attachment process is any of a class of Citation dynamics processes in which some quantity, typically some form of wealth or credit, is distributed among a number of individuals or objects according to how much they already have, so that those who are already wealthy receive more than those who are not. “Preferential attachment" is only the most recent of many names that have been given to such processes. They are also referred to under the names “Yule process", "cumulative advantage", "the rich get richer", and, less correctly, the “Matthew effect”. They are also related to Gibrat's law. The principal reason for scientific interest in preferential attachment is that it can, under suitable circumstances, generate power law distributions.