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Higher order dependence using auto-correlations

Determining order with classical statistics is rather straightforward. It was previously shown that a correlation coefficient may be applied on transitional frequency matrices#3711#> of binary variables and its significance is assessed by the Pearson correlation test (see section 5.1.1). These two statistics are employed to determine the dependence upon previous states.



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Philippe Lemay
1999-09-14