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Table 2 Additional notation

From: Real-time spatio-temporal event detection on geotagged social media

\(\Gamma _j\)

Region j where \(\Gamma =\bigcup \Gamma _j\) contains all posts in \({\mathcal {S}}\)

\({\mathcal {W}}_{ij}\)

The set of posts in the sliding window at interval i for region j

\(C_{ij}\)

Number of posts in the window slide increment interval i for region j

\(\lambda _{ij}\)

Estimate rate of posts at interval i for region j

\(P_{ij}\)

Poisson signal at interval i for region j

\(\tau _1\)

Poisson signal threshold

\(F_{ij}\)

Event signal at interval i for region j

\(\tau _2\)

Event detection threshold

\(\alpha\)

Event signal decay parameter

\({\theta }_{duration}\)

Event duration threshold

\({\theta }_{entity}\)

Minimum entities threshold

\({\theta }_{area}\)

Quad-tree node region area threshold

\({\theta }_{count}\)

Quad-tree node post count threshold