EV {UCS}R Documentation

Expected Vocabulary Size of a LNRE Model (zm, fzm)

Description

Computes the expected vocabulary size of a LNRE model (Baayen, 2001) at sample size N.

Usage

EV(model, N)

Arguments

model an object of class "zm" or "fzm", representing a Zipf-Mandelbrot (ZM) or finite Zipf-Mandelbrot (fZM) LNRE model
N a vector of positive integers, representing sample sizes

Details

The expected vocabulary size E[V(N)] is the expected number of types at sample size N, according to the LNRE model model (see Baayen, 2001).

Value

a numeric vector of the same length as N

References

Baayen, R. Harald (2001). Word Frequency Distributions. Kluwer, Dordrecht.

See Also

zm, fzm, EVm, VV, VVm


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