Dr Farley believes that if fed data on the number of members of a network who have been apprehended, an ordered-set model can give the authorities an estimate of the probability that the network has been disrupted.

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According to the network operators I talked with, there is a high probability of a per-day customer signing up for monthly service after a few days of use.

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