Modeling the temporal evolution of an online cancer forum

IHI'10 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 356-365

  Durant, Kathleen T ^a   McCray, Alexa T ^a   Safran, Charles ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer forums; methodology; online medical discussion group; online medical forum; social network analysis; temporal analysis; topic identification

Indexed keywords

CANCER FORUMS; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE MEDICAL DISCUSSION GROUP; ONLINE MEDICAL FORUM; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPIC IDENTIFICATION;

DERMATOLOGY; HEALTH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ONCOLOGY;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650933795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882992.1883042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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