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Table 2 Quartile composition for each dataset

From: Communication now and then: analyzing the Republic of Letters as a communication network

Dataset

%\(\boldsymbol{\%w \le 2}\)

\(\boldsymbol{q_1 (\%)}\)

\(\boldsymbol{q_2 (\%)}\)

\(\boldsymbol{q_3 (\%)}\)

\(\boldsymbol{q_4 (\%)}\)

Letters

70.9

3–4 (47.7)

5–7 (16.2)

8–16 (17)

> 16 (19)

Platform

57.8

3 (42.5)

4–5 (20.8)

6–9 (16.9)

> 9 (20)

Email

73.4

3 (43.4)

4–5 (18.2)

6–10 (18.5)

> 10 (19.8)

Forum

64.9

3 (35.8)

4–5 (15.4)

6–14 (24.3)

14 (24.5)

Mobile

14.6

3–5 (28)

6–13 (23.5)

14–39 (23.7)

> 40 (24.8)

  1. The first numerical column contains the fraction of links that have either one or two contacts, and which were thus not used to compute temporal features. The latter columns contain the composition of each quartile, including their ranges of contacts and in brackets the percentage of links in that category