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Population Size Estimation Using a Few Individuals as Agents

Movahedi Naini, Farid  
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Dousse, Olivier
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Thiran, Patrick  
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2011
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

We conduct an experiment where ten attendees of an open-air music festival are acting as Bluetooth probes. We then construct a parametric statistical model to estimate the total number of visible Bluetooth devices in the festival area. By comparing our estimate with ground truth information provided by probes at the entrances of the festival, we show that the total population can be estimated with a surprisingly low error (1.26% in our experiment), given the small number of agents compared to the area of the festival and the fact that they are regular attendees who move randomly. Also, our statistical model can easily be adapted to obtain more detailed estimates, such as the evolution of the population size over time.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2011.6034016
Web of Science ID

WOS:000297465102158

Author(s)
Movahedi Naini, Farid  
Dousse, Olivier
Thiran, Patrick  
Vetterli, Martin  
Date Issued

2011

Publisher

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa

Published in
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
Start page

2499

End page

2503

Subjects

Bluetooth

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Population Estimation

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Opportunistic Sampling

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

July 31 - August 5, 2011

Available on Infoscience
October 26, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/71996
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