Logical gaps in the approximate solutions of the social learning game and an exact solution

Wenjie Dai1, Xin Wang1, Zengru Di1

  • 1School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China.

Plos One
|December 30, 2014
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