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Missing -mass: Investigating the Missing Parts of Distributions
Prafulla Chandra, Andrew Thangaraj
Estimating the underlying distribution from \textit{iid} samples is a classical and important problem in statistics. When the alphabet size is large compared to number of samples,…
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How good is Good-Turing for Markov samples?
Prafulla Chandra, Andrew Thangaraj, Nived Rajaraman
The Good-Turing (GT) estimator for the missing mass (i.e., total probability of missing symbols) in samples is the number of symbols that appeared exactly once divided by .…