- and the "
pseudocount" α > 0 is a
smoothing parameter, with α = 0
corresponding to no
smoothing (this
parameter is
explained in §
Pseudocount below). Additive...
- is
often desirable to
incorporate a small-sample correction,
called pseudocount, in all
probability estimates such that no
probability is ever set to...
- ****igns the "never-seen"
symbol a
fixed pseudocount of one. A
variant called PPMd
increments the
pseudocount of the "never-seen"
symbol every time the...
-
started the experiments. In a
sense we made n + 2
observations (known as
pseudocounts) with s + 1 successes.
Although this may seem the
simplest and most reasonable...
-
sample size increases. Formally, the
center value corresponds to
using a
pseudocount of 1 2 z α 2 , {\displaystyle \ {\tfrac {\!\ 1\!\ }{2}}z_{\alpha...
-
vector captures the
prior belief about the
situation and can be seen as a
pseudocount:
observations of each
outcome that
occur before the
actual data is collected...
- with all (alpha)
parameters set to one half. This
amounts to
using a
pseudocount of one half for each
possible outcome. Equivalently, if we
write γ i...
-
contained a
small number of sequences, or only
highly related sequences,
pseudocounts are
added to
normalize the
character distributions represented in the...
- when n i = 0 {\displaystyle n_{i}=0} for
certain i {\displaystyle i} ,
pseudocounts can be added. A
frequency distribution shows a
summarized grouping of...
-
collection of N samples. Intuitively, we can view the
hyperprior vector α as
pseudocounts, i.e. as
representing the
number of
observations in each
category that...
