Analysis of an online health social network

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 297-306

  Ma, Xiaoxiao ^a   Chen, Guanling ^a   Xiao, Juntao ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b Jiangsu HanWin Technology Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

correlation analysis; health osn; social influence

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY SUPPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH RELATED INFORMATIONS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; REAL-WORLD; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB 2.0; WEIGHT CHANGE;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HEALTH;

EID: 78650940554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882992.1883035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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