Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks
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عنوان ژورنال: Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2192-6662,2192-6670
DOI: 10.1007/s13721-016-0140-7