• 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