Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence

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Summary

The basis of a measure based on likelihood ratios that can be applied to the analysis of text is described, and in cases where traditional contingency table methods work well, the likelihood ratio tests described here are nearly identical.

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Published
1993-03-01
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Surprise, Coincidence, Computer science, Summary statistics, Statistics

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