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Expecting the unexpected with Good-Turing - Ian Barber Expecting the unexpected with Good-Turing - Ian Barber

- (planet-php) - 6 months, 4 weeks ago...

A lot of interesting techniques involve taking statistical samples, and using those to predict what we'll see in the future. Usually this works pretty well, but when we're dealing with a lot of options or if we have some options that are very rare that approach can go pretty wrong. If we go down the street and note down how many men and women we see, we'll probably be able to use that to predict the chance of the next person we see being male or female pretty well. However, if we ...

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