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It's distributions all the way down!: Second order changes in statistical distributions also occur

Computation and Language 2019-08-19 v1

Abstract

The textual, big-data literature misses Bentley, OBrien, & Brocks (Bentley et als) message on distributions; it largely examines the first-order effects of how a single, signature distribution can predict population behaviour, neglecting second-order effects involving distributional shifts, either between signature distributions or within a given signature distribution. Indeed, Bentley et al. themselves under-emphasise the potential richness of the latter, within-distribution effects.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.6880,
  title  = {It's distributions all the way down!: Second order changes in statistical distributions also occur},
  author = {M. T. Keane and A. Gerow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6880},
  year   = {2019}
}
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