The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 281-290

  Zhu, Haiyi ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Membership overlap; Online communities; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

BEST PRACTICES; HISTORICAL DATA; MEMBERSHIP OVERLAP; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOOL DESIGNERS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84900453588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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