A Natural Law of Succession 1
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Consider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of distinct symbols and are told the frequency with which each symbol occurred in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the symbol probabilities. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperforms standard approaches, both in theory and in practice. for their suggestions. Richard Jeerey enriched my appreciation of prior work on inductive methods. George Miller and Matthew Norcross shared their knowledge of words and le systems, respectively.
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تاریخ انتشار 1995