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Google’s word count statistics viewer

Posted by Aleks Jakulin on 19 December 2010, 4:26 pm

Word count stats from the Google books database prove that Bayesianism is expanding faster than the universe.

A n-gram is a tuple of n words.

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Jeremy Miles says:

December 19, 2010 at 8:40 pm

But you need to include an estimate of the base rate:
<a href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Bayesian,+frequentist&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1" rel="nofollow"&gt <a href="http://;http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Bayesian,+frequentist&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1” target=”_blank”>;http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Bayesian,+frequentist&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1

OR
<a href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Thomas+Bayes,+Ronald+Fisher&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1" rel="nofollow"&gt <a href="http://;http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Thomas+Bayes,+Ronald+Fisher&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1” target=”_blank”>;http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Thomas+Bayes,+Ronald+Fisher&year_start=1880&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1

(Nice idea, all I could think of doing was rude words.)