Statistical structure of printed Turkish, English, German, French, Russian and Spanish

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 756-762

  Shamilov, Aladdin ^a   Yolacan, Senay ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Coding theory; Entropy of language; Optimal language; Regression analysis; Semantic content; Shannon's measure

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CODING THEORY; ENTROPY OF LANGUAGE; OPTIMAL LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC CONTENT; SHANNON MEASURE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 33745489148     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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