@InProceedings{akhavi_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2019.19, author = {Akhavi, Ali and Cl\'{e}ment, Julien and Darthenay, Dimitri and Lhote, Lo\"{i}ck and Vall\'{e}e, Brigitte}, title = {{Dichotomic Selection on Words: A Probabilistic Analysis}}, booktitle = {30th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2019)}, pages = {19:1--19:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-103-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {128}, editor = {Pisanti, Nadia and P. Pissis, Solon}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2019.19}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104903}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2019.19}, annote = {Keywords: dichotomic selection, text algorithms, analysis of algorithms, average case analysis of algorithms, trie, suffix array, lcp-array, information theory, numeration process, sources, entropy, coincidence, analytic combinatorics, depoissonization techniques} }