[Corpora-List] calculation problem

From: STENGERS, Helene (Helene.Stengers@ehb.be)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 14:14:55 MET DST

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    Hello dear list members,
     
     
    I have an arithmetic question. If a particular expression occurs let's
    say 500 times in a 5 million word corpus, can I assume that there will
    be 100 of these expressions in a one million corpus or is there a
    statistical (probability)formula which I should apply?
     
    Cheers,
     
    Helene Stengers

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