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Rare Events and Conditional Events on Random Strings

Mireille Régnier
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Alain Denise

Abstract

Some strings -the texts- are assumed to be randomly generated, according to a probability model that is either a Bernoulli model or a Markov model. A rare event is the over or under-representation of a word or a set of words. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, a single word is given. One studies the tail distribution of the number of its occurrences. Sharp large deviation estimates are derived. Second, one assumes that a given word is overrepresented. The distribution of a second word is studied; formulae for the expectation and the variance are derived. In both cases, the formulae are accurate and actually computable. These results have applications in computational biology, where a genome is viewed as a text.
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hal-00959004 , version 1 (13-03-2014)

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Mireille Régnier, Alain Denise. Rare Events and Conditional Events on Random Strings. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 2004, Vol. 6 no. 2 (2), pp.191-214. ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.310⟩. ⟨hal-00959004⟩
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