When using a significant_terms aggregation nested inside another aggregation, e.g. terms, I get different bg_counts for the same significant term found across term buckets. Say e.g. the outer terms agg is on a field with US state codes ("CA", "FL, "NY", etc.) and the nested significant_terms agg is…

Bg_counts in nested significant_terms aggregation

tomlameche (Tomlameche) September 17, 2015, 3:21pm 2

I see the same probleme, and very strange too, the _superset_freq is greater than doc_count...

SignificantTerms Agg : _superset_size greater than doc_count !?

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