DocumentCode
2498539
Title
A natural law of succession
Author
Ristad, Eric Sven
Author_Institution
Mnemonic Technol. Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
fYear
1998
fDate
16-21 Aug 1998
Firstpage
445
Abstract
We present a new solution to multinomial estimation and demonstrate that our solution outperforms standard solutions both in theory and in practice. The novelty of our approach lies in our use of combinatorial priors on strings
Keywords
combinatorial mathematics; estimation theory; information theory; probability; sequences; combinatorial priors; multinomial estimation; natural law of succession; strings; Benchmark testing; Convergence; Entropy; Frequency;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5000-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.1998.709050
Filename
709050
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