Fw: Bayes expire results

Daniel Kleinsinger danielk at AVALONPUB.COM
Thu Oct 28 00:16:06 IST 2004


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Dumb Question Alert!

Peter Bonivart wrote:

>>> token frequency: 1-occurence tokens: 58.21%
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> 58% of all tokens occur only once in the db.
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>>> token frequency: less than 8 occurrences: 17.40%
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> 17% occur less than eight times in the db.


If 58% of all tokens occur only once in the db, how is it that only 17%
occur less than eight times?  Isn't once less than eight times?  Isn't
58% more than 17%?

Thanks,
Daniel

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