On estimating the alphabet size of a discrete random source

نویسنده

  • Philip Ginzboorg
چکیده

We are concerned with estimating alphabet size N from a stream of symbols taken uniformly at random from that alphabet. We define and analyze a memory-restricted variant of an algorithm that have been earlier proposed for this purpose. The alphabet size N can be estimated in O( √ N) time and space by the memory-restricted variant of this algorithm.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1711.07545  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017