Testing Propositions Derived from Twitter Studies: Generalization and Replication in Computational Social Science.

Replication is an essential requirement for scientific discovery. The current study aims to generalize and replicate 10 propositions made in previous Twitter studies using a representative dataset. Our findings suggest 6 out of 10 propositions could not be replicated due to the variations of data co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4546006?pdf=render