@InProceedings{nicaud:LIPIcs.CPM.2016.9, author = {Nicaud, Cyril}, title = {{Estimating Statistics on Words Using Ambiguous Descriptions}}, booktitle = {27th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2016)}, pages = {9:1--9:12}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-012-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {54}, editor = {Grossi, Roberto and Lewenstein, Moshe}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2016.9}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60859}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2016.9}, annote = {Keywords: random words, runs, symbolic method, analytic combinatorics} }