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Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises

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In this chapter we consider the surprise for arepertoire which represents the interest in several statistical tests which were performed more or less independently. Then we consider the surprise obtained from repetitions of the same low-probability event.

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Palm, G. (2012). Surprise from Repetitions and Combination of Surprises. In: Novelty, Information and Surprise. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29075-6_13

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