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Table 2.

High-level statistics of microblog propagation networks analyzed in our experimental study

Attributes	Rumor		Credible messages		Both
Attributes	Mean	Std.	Mean	Std.	Mean	Std.
Total number of users in the propagation network	39466.1	1527.3	70961.4	1685.2	61860.9	1634.2
Number of spreaders	3586.7	537.5	5677.1	768.3	5258.5.8	688.4
Number of stiflers	35418.8	11369.5	64384.2	1096.7	61721.3	1329.1
Percentage of spreaders (%)	9.8	1.5	8.1	1.4	8.5	1.5
Average out degree	159.9	14.3	188.6	16.7	171.3	16.5
Depth of the network	9.5	2.1	11.3	2.9	10.1	2.7
Time span in days	7.8	1.2	10.6	1.4	9.2	1.3