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Table 4 Error metrics for the two types of thematic communities (statistic is the value of the statistics of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov criterion for two samples, critical value of statistic denoted maximum statistic value to determine that the samples have the same distribution)

From: Large-scale forecasting of information spreading

Community type

Number of IMs

Critical value of statistic

Reaction type: like

Reaction type: share

Reaction type: comment

Charity community

\(N_{1} = 84\), \(N_{2} = 150\)

0.185

Statistic = 0.14, p-value = 0.18

Statistic = 0.16, p-value = 0.09

Statistic = 0.07, p-value = 0.91

News community, regular IMs

\(N_{1} = 150, N_{2} = 150\)

0.157

Statistic = 0.14, p-value = 0.097

Statistic = 0.11, p-value = 0.27

Statistic = 0.12, p-value = 0.17

News community, ads

\(N_{1} = 24\), \(N_{2} = 50\)

0.338

Statistic = 0.13, p-value = 0.91

Statistic = 0.32, p-value = 0.06

Statistic = 0.21, p-value = 0.39