Para 'normal' activity: On the distribution of average ratings

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 110-119

  Dalvi, Nilesh ^a   Kumar, Ravi ^b   Pang, Bo ^b  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; LOG-NORMAL; SELECTION BIAS; SIMPLE METHOD; USER RATING; USER SELECTION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84890122420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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