Frequency of symbol occurrences in bicomponent stochastic models

  • Authors:
  • Diego de Falco;Massimiliano Goldwurm;Violetta Lonati

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We give asymptotic estimates of the frequency of occurrences of a symbol in a random word generated by any bicomponent stochastic model. More precisely, we consider the random variable Yn, representing the number of occurrences of a given symbol in a word of length n generated at random; the stochastic model is defined by a rational formal series r having a linear representation with two primitive components. This model includes the case when r is the product or the sum of two primitive rational formal series. We obtain asymptotic evaluations for the mean value and the variance of Yn and its limit distribution.