Title :
A natural law of succession
Author :
Ristad, Eric Sven
Author_Institution :
Mnemonic Technol. Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.709050
