Category Archives: Internet measurement

“Trump supporters go to Washington”

Posted on 7 February 2021 by ecoquant

People don’t only have to worry about a government tracking them by their smartphones. In this case, the social effects of this capability were beneficial, because “some very bad dudes” were able to be found and identified. But most people … Continue reading →

Posted in cell phone network, goverance, Internet, Internet measurement, price of anarchy, privacy, spatial statistics, statistical series, technology, telecommunications | Leave a comment

Reanalysis of business visits from deployments of a mobile phone app

Posted on 20 February 2020 by ecoquant

Updated, 20th October 2020 This reports a reanalysis of data from the deployment of a mobile phone app, as reported in: M. Yauck, L.-P. Rivest, G. Rothman, “Capture-recapture methods for data on the activation of applications on mobile phones“, Journal … Continue reading →

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