Koutras, M. V.; Alexandrou, V. A. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 32 (1997) 4, pp. 393-404
Let Xn be a random variable enumerating the number of appearances of a specific pattern in a sequence of n Bernoulli trials. A new method is presented for obtaining the conditional distribution of Xn given the number of successes in the n trials. The method is applied to three fixed-length run...