[Air-L] Question: Twitter follower count distribution

[Jakob Jünger]

Thanks for the advice, may I follow up on this? My first thought was
poisson, too. But poisson distributions (and gaussian) assume the events
occur independently, as far as I know. And that should not be true for
follower counts because, I guess, there is some kind of (nonlinear)
preferential attachment process behind this (e.g.
http://networksciencebook.com/chapter/3#not-poisson). Might be I missed
something. Maybe someone knows studies that fit distributions of social
media metrics?


Am 06.05.2020 um 21:53 schrieb Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice):
> considering the number of followers is a count variable (non-negative discrete numbers), is is either a poisson, negative-binomial, or sero-inflated distribution
> log-transforming the distribution for further (statistical) analysis is not advised.
>
> best 
> Maurice
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