Re: Distribution of a vowel on the page


"David Winsemius" <doe_snot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Richard Ulrich <Rich.Ulrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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If there were a positive correlation (consecutive repetitions),
the distribution, if otherwise Poisson, would be over-dispersed
(variance too large for the mean). Since there is a negative
correlation, it will be under-dispersed.

Why should the vowel count of one line be dependent on the vowel count in
a prior line?


You seem to be missing Richard's point, which is about lack of independence
within words affecting the *variance* of the vowel-per-line counts. For
example, suppose that all lines contain 10 words, and that all words contain
5 letters and either 1 or 2 vowels.

Graham


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