On Turing's formula for word probabilities

✍ Scribed by Nadas, A.

• Book ID: 117906346
• Publisher: IEEE
• Year: 1985
• Weight: 331 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-3518
• DOI: 10.1109/tassp.1985.1164728

✦ Synopsis

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; we compare three ways to obtain it.