Correlations between user voting data, budget, and box office for films in the internet movie database

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 858-868

  Wasserman, Max ^a   Mukherjee, Satyam ^a   Scott, Konner ^a   Zeng, Xiao Han T ^a   Radicchi, Filippo ^b   Amaral, Luís A N ^c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

films (motion pictures); meta analysis; online databases

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC STATISTICS; FILM CHARACTERISTICS; INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; META ANALYSIS; ONLINE DATABASE; STRONG CORRELATION;

MOTION PICTURES;

EID: 84951731558     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23213     Document Type: Article

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