Re: VMs: Stolfi's Binomial word lengths revisited

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Giddy,

At 21:52 19/11/2003 +0200, Giddy Landan wrote:
> One last point. Stolfi gives an example code that produce the binomial
> word length distribution. It should be noted that the code is limited to
> 2^9=512 distinct values, whereas the VMS sample vocabulary contains 6525
> words.
>
> I confess that I find these finding shocking, and I would rather believe
> my eyes. Would anyone point out my mistake?

Certainly for this final observation, the *contents* of the sample 
vocabulary are irrelevant to the statistics of the *word-length 
distribution* - AFAICR, the example code (for generating binomial word 
length distribution) is no more than an example.

IMO, the first test comes down to the level of significance you find 
significant. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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