On Turing's formula for word probabiliti
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Nadas, A.
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Article
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1985
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IEEE
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Turing, in a 1941 personal communication to 1. J. Good, suggested a formula for estimating probabilities of words in text and, more generally, of species in a mixed population of various species. l t is remarkable that Turing's formula can be obtained by significantly different statistical methods;