Title of article
A note on occurrence of gapped patterns in i.i.d. sequences
Author/Authors
Vladimir Pozdnyakov، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
Pages
10
From page
93
To page
102
Abstract
A new martingale technique is developed to find formulas for the expected value and generating function of the waiting time until one observes a gapped pattern (or a structured motif) in an i.i.d. sequence of random letters from a finite alphabet.
Keywords
Martingale , Waiting time , Gapped pattern , Gambling , Structured motif
Journal title
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Serial Year
2008
Journal title
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Record number
886636
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