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Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Page Views: A Case Study of Wikipedia
Chao Xu1, Chen Xu1, Wenjing Tian1
1School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China.
Abstract:
In this study, the Wikipedia page views for four selected topics, namely, education, the economy/finance, medicine, and nature/environment from 2016-2018 are collected and the sample entropies of the three years' page views are estimated and investigated using a short-time series multiscale entropy (sMSE) algorithm for a comprehensible understanding of the complexity of human website searching activities. The sample entropies of the selected topics are found to exhibit different temporal variations. In the past three years, the temporal characteristics of the sample entropies are vividly revealed, and the sample entropies of the selected topics follow the same tendencies and can be quantitatively ranked. By taking the 95% confidence interval into account, the temporal variations of sample entropies are further validated by statistical analysis (non-parametric), including the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Mann-Whitney U-test. The results suggest that the sample entropies estimated by the sMSE algorithm are feasible for analyzing the temporal variations of complexity for certain topics, whereas the regular variations of estimated sample entropies of different selected topics can't simply be accepted as is. Potential explanations and paths in forthcoming studies are also described and discussed.
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