Number of occurrences in two‐state Markov chains, with an application in linguistics
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique
- Vol. 10 (3) , 225-231
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3556186
Abstract
Let Nnbe the number of occurrences in n trials of an event governed by a two‐state Markov chain (of first order or second order). We obtain the distribution of Nnand apply it to a problem involving literary text.Keywords
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