Koen G > 28-06-2020, 05:16 PM
(28-06-2020, 04:21 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What strikes the eye in the Dostoevsky curve is that the left slope is neat while the right is not. I wonder how the picture would change would the text be abbreviated... Maybe it is abbreviation that "normalizes" the distribution.
Anton > 28-06-2020, 05:20 PM
(28-06-2020, 02:11 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In that case, both odd features would be explained.
(28-06-2020, 05:16 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What about syllabification? I think syllables in some languages may have a distribution similar to Voynichese.
MarcoP > 28-06-2020, 05:27 PM
Koen G > 28-06-2020, 05:30 PM
Anton > 28-06-2020, 07:08 PM
RobGea > 28-06-2020, 08:50 PM
Anton > 28-06-2020, 10:10 PM
Alin_J > 29-06-2020, 05:55 AM
(28-06-2020, 07:08 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think a random text (where each word is a random string constrained by length) will have normal distribution of word type frequency.
Does anybody have a sample?
ReneZ > 29-06-2020, 06:40 AM
Anton > 29-06-2020, 01:27 PM
(29-06-2020, 06:40 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In this thread, the terms 'normal' and 'binomial' are arbitrarily mixed,