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

Applied Network Science

Table 8 Average values of the power-law model’s exponent α in the control group and in the treatment group by values of ν ₁ and ν ₂, computed over k>1

Treatment groups, average α	ν ₁ = 0.0	ν ₂ = 0.2	ν ₂ = 0.4	ν ₂ = 0.6	ν ₂ = 0.8	ν ₂ = 1
ν ₁ = 0.0	3.03	3.03	3.03	3.03	3.03	3.03
ν ₁ = 0.2	2.87	2.87	2.88	2.87	2.87	2.87
ν ₁ = 0.4	2.76	2.76	2.76	2.76	2.76	2.76
ν ₁ = 0.6	2.67	2.67	2.67	2.67	2.66	2.66
ν ₁ = 0.8	2.59	2.59	2.59	2.59	2.59	2.59
ν ₁ = 1	2.53 (0.08)	2.53 (0.05)	2.53 (0.03)	2.53 (0.10)	2.53 (0.01)	2.53 (0.04)
Control group, average α: 2.52

The number in parenthesis is the p-value associated to a t-test that α(t r e a t m e n t)=α(c o n t r o l). We only show p-values greater it the difference is non-significant at the 0.01 level