bursts-package {bursts}R Documentation

Markov Model for Bursty Behavior in Streams

Description

An implementation of Jon Kleinberg's burst detection algorithm. Uses an infinite Markov model to detect periods of increased activity in a series of discrete events with known times, and provides a simple visualization of the results.

Details

Package: bursts
Type: Package
Version: 1.0-2
Date: 2022-07-14
License: MIT

The function kleinberg performs the analysis, returing a data frame containing a list of all of the ‘bursts’ and their intensities. The function plot.bursts can be used to display a simple visualization of the hierarchical burst structure.

Author(s)

Jeff Binder

Maintainer: Jeff Binder <extruded@gmail.com>

References

Kleinberg, J. (2003). "Bursty and Hierarchical Structure in Streams." Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 7: 373-397. <doi:10.1023/A:1024940629314>

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/kdd02.html


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