A Natural Law of Succession

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dc.creatorRistad, Eric Sven
dc.date1995-08-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:09:59Z
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dc.descriptionConsider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of k distinct symbols and are told that the i-th symbol occurred exactly n_i times in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the conditional probability that the next symbol will be i. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperforms standard approaches, both in theory and in practice.
dc.description23 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9508012
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9508012
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151233
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleA Natural Law of Succession
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