Statistical simulation and the distribution of distances between identical elements in a random sequence

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2010.01.005zbMATH Open1284.62074OpenAlexW2024261999MaRDI QIDQ2445686FDOQ2445686

Authors: Peter Zörnig 

Publication date: 14 April 2014

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2010.01.005

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zbMATH Keywords

MCMCstatistical simulationZipf's lawpower lawsquantitative linguisticsburstinessdistribution of distances in sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

Cites Work

• Word frequency distributions
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Cited In (2)

• Zipf's law for randomly generated frequencies: explicit tests for the goodness-of-fit
• Detecting linear sequences and subsequences

Uses Software

• R

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