Community Health Index - Lithium
Community Health Index - Lithium
Community Health Index - Lithium
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defining the CHI<br />
health factors<br />
Our goal in introducing the <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Index</strong> (CHI)<br />
is to provide a standard of measurement that all online<br />
communities can use. To that end, this section describes the<br />
representation of the six health factors as well as a formula<br />
for combining them.<br />
Members<br />
The standard measure for Members is the registration<br />
metric that all communities track. In the formulas that follow,<br />
Members is represented by μ.<br />
Content<br />
The two standard metrics that contribute to calculating content<br />
utility are posts and page views. Posts (represented by