Contagion and Consistency—A Rejoinder

Rejoinder to commentaries on social contagion theory

We thank the commentators for the care and attention they have given to this topic and for the new insights they are contributing to what we all regard as an important and engaging area, namely the study of the structure and function of human social networks. Most of the commentators note the same limitations and promise that we, in our prior papers, have also noted with the use of generalized ...

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We thank the editor Professor David Steinberg for organizing this stimulating discussion. We are also grateful to all the discussants for their constructive comments about the method proposed in our paper (denoted as QZW hereafter). Profile monitoring is a relatively new research area; but, it has a profound application background (cf., Wang and Tsung 2005, Woodall et al. 2004). Due to the fact...

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Regarding Jennifer’s criticism of the “independence” assumption in expression (2) of the paper, we agree that this is surely not true though it may be roughly true. However, the “correlation” calculation in (2) is a bit more complicated than it initially appears in that the calculation is with respect to a uniform distribution over say, the locations in unit i. In fact, the randomness arises fr...

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We would like to thank all the discussants for their contributions. Our paper attempts only a first step towards a satisfactory linkage between complexity theory and coding-based inference and these discussions will help to blaze the paths for future exploration. We also take this opportunity to remind the reader that, in our opinion, MDL and MML agree on many, many points. While we certainly d...