Modelling member behaviour in on-line user-generated content sites: A semiparametric Bayesian approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1051-1069

  Park, Young Hoon ^a   Park, Chang Hee ^a   Ghosh, Pulak ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Bivariate zero inflated Poisson model; Community development; Data augmentation; On line community; Spline function

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053560661     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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