Pittel, B. On a Daley-Kendall model of random rumours. (English) Zbl 0698.60061 J. Appl. Probab. 27, No. 1, 14-27 (1990). A population of N individuals, \(N\to \infty\), is such that one member learns a rumour, starts telling it to other members who spread it. A knower becomes inactive once another knower is contacted. The number of eventual knowers is asymptotically normal with mean and variance linear in N, using a diffusion approximation argument. Reviewer: H.J.Weiner Cited in 21 Documents MSC: 60J25 Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces 60J80 Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) Keywords:spread of rumour; central limit theorem; diffusion approximation PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{B. Pittel}, J. Appl. Probab. 27, No. 1, 14--27 (1990; Zbl 0698.60061) Full Text: DOI