Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to estimate and deduplicate audiences are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a controller to determine a subunion of at least first and second marginal audiences of media based on of panel data and census data, the panel data including a panel impression count and a panel audience size, and the census data including a census impression count, an audience size calculator to determine a census audience size of the at least the first and second marginal audiences based on the panel impression count and the panel audience size and determine a subunion census audience size, the subunion census audience size corresponding to an overlap between the at least the first and second marginal audiences; and a report generator to generate a report including the census audience size and the subunion census audience size.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality of users represented across multiple bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Examples includes processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to generate a first composite Bloom filter array based on first and second Bloom filter arrays. The processor circuitry is to generate a final composite Bloom filter array based on the first composite Bloom filter array and a third Bloom filter array. Different ones of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays including differential privacy noise. The processor circuitry to estimate a cardinality of a union of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays based on the final composite Bloom filter array.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality across multiple datasets represented using Bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Disclosed examples include processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to determine an inclusion-exclusion expression that defines an audience size for a user group of interest. Terms in the inclusion-exclusion expression corresponding to either a first cardinality of a first one of at least three Bloom filter arrays or a second cardinality of a union of two or more of the Bloom filter arrays. Different ones of the Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The at least one processor further to estimate, based on the inclusion-exclusion expression, the audience size of the user group of interest.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to estimate and deduplicate audiences are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a controller to determine a subunion of at least first and second marginal audiences of media based on of panel data and census data, the panel data including a panel impression count and a panel audience size, and the census data including a census impression count, an audience size calculator to determine a census audience size of the at least the first and second marginal audiences based on the panel impression count and the panel audience size and determine a subunion census audience size, the subunion census audience size corresponding to an overlap between the at least the first and second marginal audiences; and a report generator to generate a report including the census audience size and the subunion census audience size.

Abstract: Methods and systems to estimate audience measurement metrics based on users represented in Bloom filter arrays are disclosed. An apparatus includes a communications interface to receive a first Bloom filter array from a first computer of a first database proprietor. The first Bloom filter array is representative of first users who accessed media. The first users are registered with the first database proprietor. The first Bloom filter array includes a first array of first elements. Values of respective ones of the first elements are either a 0 or a 1 based on whether quantities of the first users allocated to the respective ones of the first elements are even or odd. The apparatus further includes a Bloom filter array analyzer to estimate a first cardinality for the first Bloom filter array. The first cardinality is indicative of a total number of the first users who accessed the media.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate corrected online audience measurement data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes programmable circuitry to at least receive, from a server of a database proprietor, a first audience count, a second audience count, and a third audience count, the first audience count indicative of a first number of impressions corresponding to first network communications, the second network communications from second computing devices, and the third audience count indicative of a third number of impressions corresponding to ones of the first network communications and ones of the second network communications attributed to the first media category and the second media category accessed by the first demographic group, the first audience count including a server-generated duplicated audience count generated by the server of the database proprietor, and calculate a deduplication factor for the first demographic group using the first, second, and third audience counts.

Abstract: An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: receive first HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a first server of a first database proprietor and second HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a second server of a second database proprietor, the first HLL data including obfuscated first user impression data and the second HLL data including obfuscated second user impression data; generate union HLL data based on the first HLL data from the first database proprietor and the second HLL data from the second database proprietor by performing a union of data sets of the obfuscated first user impression data represented in the first HLL data and the obfuscated second user impression data represented in the second HLL data; and determine a total number of deduplicated unique audience members based on the union HLL data generated by the vector analyzer.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to estimate audience measurement metrics based on users represented in Bloom filter arrays are disclosed. An apparatus includes a communications interface to receive a first Bloom filter array from a first computer of a first database proprietor. The first Bloom filter array is representative of first users who accessed media. The first users are registered with the first database proprietor. The first Bloom filter array includes a first array of first elements. Values of respective ones of the first elements are either a 0 or a 1 based on whether quantities of the first users allocated to the respective ones of the first elements are even or odd. The apparatus further includes a Bloom filter array analyzer to estimate a first cardinality for the first Bloom filter array. The first cardinality is indicative of a total number of the first users who accessed the media.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality of users represented across multiple bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Examples includes processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to generate a first composite Bloom filter array based on first and second Bloom filter arrays. The processor circuitry is to generate a final composite Bloom filter array based on the first composite Bloom filter array and a third Bloom filter array. Different ones of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays including differential privacy noise. The processor circuitry to estimate a cardinality of a union of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays based on the final composite Bloom filter array.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate measures of unique audiences for Internet-based media. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to estimate cardinality of users represented in arbitrarily distributed bloom filter arrays are disclosed. A system includes a communication interface to: access a first Bloom filter array representative of first entries in a first database, the first entries allocated to ones of first elements in the first Bloom filter array based on a non-uniform distribution of outputs of a hash function applied to the first entries, and access a second Bloom filter array representative of second entries in a second database. The system also includes machine readable instructions to cause one or more processors to estimate a cardinality of a union of the first and second entries based on the non-uniform distribution of the outputs of the hash function.

Abstract: A disclosed example includes at least one memory, programmable circuitry, and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to increment a first value corresponding to a first position in a vector based on a first bit value representation, the first bit value representation corresponding to a first audience member identifier; increment a second value corresponding to a second position in the vector based on a second bit value representation, the second bit value representation corresponding to a second audience member identifier; estimate the second frequency moment of the media impression data using the vector; determine the variance of the second frequency moment; and based on the second frequency moment, schedule a query of the media impression data to be processed by a computer at a future time.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to estimate cardinality of users represented in arbitrarily distributed bloom filter arrays are disclosed. An apparatus includes a communications interface to obtain a first Bloom filter array generated by a first computer of a first database proprietor and obtain a second Bloom filter array generated by a second computer of a second database proprietor. The apparatus includes a cardinality analyzer to estimate a total number of unique users included in a union of corresponding ones of the first and second users represented in the first and second Bloom filter arrays regardless of whether the first and second users are mapped, based on a first distribution or a second distribution different than the first distribution, to the corresponding first and second Bloom filter arrays.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for audience-based deduplication using vector-of-counts (VOC) central moments. An example system to determine an audience size for media based on vector of counts sketch data, the system including memory, programmable circuitry, and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to apply a hash function to first vector of counts sketch data, second vector of counts sketch data, and third vector of counts sketch data to remove personally identifiable information, determine a first covariance matrix associated with intersection cardinalities of at least two of the first, second, or third vector of counts, determine a second covariance matrix associated with disjoint cardinalities of the at least two of the first, second, or third vector of counts, and determine the audience size based on the first covariance matrix or the second covariance matrix.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate corrected online audience measurement data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an impressions collector to receive a first audience count indicative of first impressions attributed to a first media category for a demographic group, a second audience count indicative of second impressions attributed to a second media category accessed by the demographic group, and a third audience count indicative of third impressions attributed to the first media category and the second media category accessed by the demographic group, the first audience count including a duplicated audience count; a factor generator to calculate a deduplication factor using the first audience count, the second audience count, and the third audience count; an audience calculator to determine a corrected audience count of the first media category to correct the duplicated audience count; and a ratings data generator to generate ratings information for the first media category.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to estimate and deduplicate audiences are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a controller to determine a subunion of at least first and second marginal audiences of media based on of panel data and census data, the panel data including a panel impression count and a panel audience size, and the census data including a census impression count, an audience size calculator to determine a census audience size of the at least the first and second marginal audiences based on the panel impression count and the panel audience size and determine a subunion census audience size, the subunion census audience size corresponding to an overlap between the at least the first and second marginal audiences; and a report generator to generate a report including the census audience size and the subunion census audience size.

Abstract: A disclosed example includes at least one memory, programmable circuitry, and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to increment a first value corresponding to a first position in a vector based on a first bit value representation, the first bit value representation corresponding to a first audience member identifier; increment a second value corresponding to a second position in the vector based on a second bit value representation, the second bit value representation corresponding to a second audience member identifier; estimate the second frequency moment of the media impression data using the vector; determine the variance of the second frequency moment; and based on the second frequency moment, schedule a query of the media impression data to be processed by a computer at a future time.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate measures of unique audiences for Internet-based media. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes using deduplication based on vector of counts sketch data are disclosed. An example apparatus to determine an audience size for media based on vector of counts sketch data includes: a coefficient analyzer to determine coefficient values of a polynomial based on variances, a covariance, and cardinalities corresponding to a first vector of counts from a first database and a second vector of counts from a second database; an overlap analyzer to determine a real root of the polynomial, the real root corresponding to an estimate of an overlap between the first vector of counts and the second vector of counts; and a report generator to estimate the audience size based on the estimate of the overlap and the cardinalities of the first vector of counts and the second vector of counts.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality across multiple datasets represented using Bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Disclosed examples include processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to determine an inclusion-exclusion expression that defines an audience size for a user group of interest. Terms in the inclusion-exclusion expression corresponding to either a first cardinality of a first one of at least three Bloom filter arrays or a second cardinality of a union of two or more of the Bloom filter arrays. Different ones of the Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The at least one processor further to estimate, based on the inclusion-exclusion expression, the audience size of the user group of interest.