Applied Network Science

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 k≥k _min
k _min	2	5	6
exponent	1.834	2.250	2.817
p-value	0.76	0.45	0.94

“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

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