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Table 1 Comparing interaction networks of the three online communities and testing for goodness-of-fit of power functions to degree distributions

From: Online community management as social network design: testing for the signature of management activities in online communities

 

Innovatori PA

Edgeryders

Matera2019

Policy

“no special policy”

“onboard new users”

“onboard new users”

 In existence since

December 2008

October 2011

March 2013

 Accounts created

10,815

2419

512

 Active participants (nodes)

619

596

198

 Number of edges (weighted)

1241

4073

883

 Average distance

3.77

2.34

2.51

 Maximum degree

155

238

46

 Average degree

2.033

6.798

4.454

Goodness-of-fit for k≥1

 exponent

1.611

1.477

1.606

p-value

0.21

0.00 (reject)

0.00 (reject)

Goodness-of-fit for kk min

k min

2

5

6

 exponent

1.834

2.250

2.817

p-value

0.76

0.45

0.94

  1. “Exponent” refers to the power law’s scaling parameter. “p-value” to the result of the test that the degree distribution of the community was generated by a power law with that exponent