Abstract:<p>The statistical analysis of a large number of rare events, (LNRE), which can also be called statistical theory of diversity, is the subject of acute interest both in statistical theory and in numerous applications. A careful eye will quickly see the presence of a large number of very rare objects almost everywhere: large numbers of rare species in ecosystems, large numbers of rare opinions in any opinion pool, large numbers of small admixtures in any solution and large numbers of rare words in any tex… Show more
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