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Table 3 Best performing models

From: Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data

Model

Var. 1

Coef.

Var. 2

Coef.

Inter.

R2

RMSE

Months

\(I_{1}\)

posts

0.504(***)

comments_mean

0.123(*)

2.061(***)

0.752

0.287

0.5

\(I_{2}\)

posts

0.479(***)

reactions_median

0.148(*)

2.039(***)

0.735

0.292

0.5

\(I_{3}\)

posts_per_day

0.314(***)

page_likes

0.297(**)

2.069(***)

0.707

0.315

2

\(I_{4}\)

shares

0.161(*)

page_likes

0.324(**)

2.723(***)

0.652

0.354

0.25

\(I_{5}\)

video_views_median_week

0.198(*)

page_likes

0.329(**)

2.545(***)

0.649

0.351

0.75

\(I_{6}\)

posts_per_day

0.304(**)

video_views_median_week

0.220(*)

2.545(***)

0.602

0.366

3

\(I_{7}\)

reactions_mean

0.279(*)

video_views_mean

0.147(*)

3.125(***)

0.591

0.406

2

\(I_{8}\)

comments_median_week

0.184(*)

video_views_mean

0.183(**)

3.467(***)

0.576

0.416

2

\(I_{9}\)

posts_per_day

0.233(*)

shares_mean

0.185(*)

3.147(***)

0.448

0.463

0.25

\(P_{1}\)

posts

0.210(*)

reactions_median

0.546(***)

0.793(*)

0.808

0.424

0.75

\(P_{2}\)

posts

0.274(*)

video_views_mean

0.355(***)

1.46283(**)

0.708

0.531

1

\(P_{3}\)

posts

0.354(*)

comments_median

0.261(*)

1.526(**)

0.568

0.608

1

  1. Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1.