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Published online 14 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050613-1
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Modellers measure 'word of mouth' for films
Mathematics calculates quality of sleeper hits and movie bombs.
It's official, says one group of researchers: Blade II is a bad film. Their study turns patterns of attendance into a single number that claims to grade a film's quality1.
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