Comment on "Linguistic Features of Noncoding DNA Sequences"
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2008-02-03 v2 适应与自组织系统
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摘要
In a recent Physical Review Letter, Mantegna et. al., report that certain statistical signatures of natural language can be found in non-coding DNA sequences. In this comment we show that random noise with power-law correlation similar to noise, exhibits the same "linguistic" signature as those found in non-coding DNA. We conclude that these signatures cannot distinguish languages from noise.
引用
@article{arxiv.adap-org/9503002,
title = {Comment on "Linguistic Features of Noncoding DNA Sequences"},
author = {N. E. Israeloff and M. Kagalenko and K. Chan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:adap-org/9503002},
year = {2008}
}
备注
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