On the probability distribution of typological frequencies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6149 LNAI, Issue M4D, 2010, Pages 29-35

  Cysouw, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 78649770979     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14322-9_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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