| Article ID: | iaor1988713 |
| Country: | Israel |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 428 |
| End Page Number: | 431 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1988 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Chryssaphinou O., Papastauridis S. |
A sequence of independent experiments is performed, each producing a letter from a given alphabet. Using a result by Barbour and Eagleson the authors prove that under general conditions the number of non-overlapping occurrences of long recurrent patterns has approximately a Poisson distribution.