Published on in Vol 7, No 2 (2019): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12264, first published .
Using Twitter to Detect Psychological Characteristics of Self-Identified Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study

Using Twitter to Detect Psychological Characteristics of Self-Identified Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study

Using Twitter to Detect Psychological Characteristics of Self-Identified Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study

Yulin Hswen   1, 2 * , MPH ;   Anuraag Gopaluni   3 * , BA ;   John S Brownstein   2, 4, 5 , PhD ;   Jared B Hawkins   2, 4 , MMSc, PhD

1 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

2 Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

4 Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

5 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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