“…During the past few decades up to recently, the meaningful progress on runs and pattern statistics has been wonderfully surveyed in Balakrishnan and Koutras (2003) as well as in Fu and Lou (2003) and references therein. Furthermore, there are some more recent contributions on the topic such as Arapis et al (2018), Eryilmaz (2018), Kong (2019), Makri et al (2019), and Aki (2019).…”