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

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2010.01.005MaRDI QIDQ2445686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

MCMCstatistical simulationZipf's lawpower lawsquantitative linguisticsburstinessdistribution of distances in sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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

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• R

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