Research Article

A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation

Table 2

Compare the result after one round for each model with the ground truth of years 1997, 1998, and 1999.

ā€‰Kendall's tauTop Jaccard coefficients
Year199719981999199719981999

Independent Cascade0.0070.0120.0150.0110.0140.015
Linear Threshold0.1720.1670.1670.1710.1950.212
DiffusionRank0.2210.1810.1600.2160.2220.213
Proposed(0.00)0.2400.2040.1780.2420.2430.225
Proposed(0.25)0.2430.2060.1800.2480.2440.226
Proposed(0.50)0.2430.2060.1800.2470.2430.227
Proposed(0.75)0.2430.2060.1800.2460.2430.226
Proposed(1.00)0.2300.1900.1630.2040.1790.156