Temporal Sequence Analysis of Bottlenose Dolphin Vocalizations
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چکیده
...................................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................1 Categorization ..................................................................................................................1 A Quantitative Measure of Similarity ..........................................................................3 The Contour Similarity Technique ...............................................................................6 A Comparison of Different Whistle Categorization Methods ......................................7 ARTwarp ....................................................................................................................10 Information Theory ........................................................................................................12 Zipf's Law ...................................................................................................................13 Entropy .......................................................................................................................16 Markov Chains ...........................................................................................................18 Statistical Analysis of Indus Scripts ...............................................................................20 Introduction ................................................................................................................20 Cumulative Frequency Distributions ..........................................................................21 Bi-gram Probabilities ..................................................................................................22 Log-Likelihood Significance Test ..............................................................................23 Entropy and Mutual Information ................................................................................24
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