havelaar: The determiner 'het' in the Dutch novel Max Havelaar

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The determiner 'het' in the Dutch novel Max Havelaar

Description

The frequency of the determiner 'het' in the Dutch novel 'Max Havelaar' by Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), in 99 consecutive text fragments of 1000 tokens each.

Usage

data(havelaar)

Format

A data frame with 99 observations on the following 2 variables.

Chunk

a numeric vector with the indices of the text fragments.

Frequency

a numeric vector with the frequencies of the determiner 'het' in the text fragments.

Source

The text of Max Havelaar was obtained from the Project Gutenberg at at http://www.gutenberg.org

Examples

## Not run: 
data(havelaar)

n = 1000                          # token size of text fragments
p = mean(havelaar$Frequency / n)  # relative frequencies

plot(qbinom(ppoints(99), n, p), sort(havelaar$Frequency),
   xlab = paste("quantiles of (", n, ",", round(p, 4), 
   ")-binomial", sep=""), ylab = "frequencies")


lambda = mean(havelaar$Frequency)
ks.test(havelaar$Frequency, "ppois", lambda)
ks.test(jitter(havelaar$Frequency), "ppois", lambda)



## End(Not run)

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