A statistical model of homogeneous text and its possibilities in text study*

Address for correspondence: Orlov Jurij, Konstantinovič, 380102 Tbilisi 102, Gldani VI Mikrorajon, Korp 20, Kv. 124, Georgia.

Abstract

The overwhelming majority of words as text elements occur very rarely. Their probabilities cannot, therefore, be estimated from samples. As a consequence, special statistical means are needed which make it possible to consider the frequencies of the text elements without hypotheses about their distributions. A statistically homogeneous text model is presented, which can be used for comparing the frequency of its elements to those in real texts, and its application is illustrated by examples.

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Address for correspondence: Orlov Jurij, Konstantinovič, 380102 Tbilisi 102, Gldani VI Mikrorajon, Korp 20, Kv. 124, Georgia.