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. 2017 Jan;146(1):63–76. doi: 10.1037/xge0000245

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(A) Expected wait time for subsequences of length 4 and (B). the associated probability of not encountering each sequence in a longer “global” sequence of length 20. The wait time statistic directly determines the nonoccurrence probability—the longer the wait time, the higher the probability of nonoccurrence in a longer, finite string. Reproduced from Hahn and Warren (2009) p. 456.