# Field statistics - sampling

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-statistics-sampling/27343>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 13, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-statistics-sampling/27343 "2015-08-13T18:39:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-statistics-sampling/27343/2 "2015-08-14T17:23:54Z")

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I assume you're referring to top-values by field in the Discover pane? If so, those statistics are based on the 500 documents that appear in Discover. By default, for time-series data, those are the latest documents, but that also changes depending on what searches and filters you've applies in Discover.

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