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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2024
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Michael R. Sheppard, Holland, MI (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to estimate cardinality through ordered statistics are disclosed. In an example, an apparatus includes processor circuitry to selects a sample dataset from a first reference dataset of media assets and partitions the sample dataset into m mutually exclusive subsets of approximately equal size. The processor circuitry then estimates a ratio of a sample weighted average and empirical cumulative distribution of an approximately largest order statistic from at least one of the m subsets and generates an estimate of a total cardinality of the first reference dataset by multiplying the ratio by approximately m.