Query Size Estimation
Lipton and J.Naughton presented an adaptive random sampling algorithm for database querying which is applicable to any query for which answer to the query can be partitioned into disjoint subsets. Compared with most sampling estimation algorithms that statically determines the number of samples needed, the algorithm they proposed decides the number of samples based on the size of samples and tends to keep the running time constant rather than the number of samples.
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