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Table 3 Descriptive Statistics of the average amount of sampled and duplicate trends. It can be seen from the data that the Illusion spiral outperforms all others random strategies in terms of the number of sampled trends

From: Towards a standard sampling methodology on online social networks: collecting global trends on Twitter

Trends

q(y|x)

Avg

% Sampled

Brownian

62.61 %

 

Illusion

64.94 %

 

Reservoir

49.06 %

% Duplicated

Brownian

37.3 %

 

Illusion

35.05 %

 

Reservoir

50.93 %