5-4.5 Using a statistical distribution.
The idea of calculating every combination even using
a computer is daunting. Two principles work together to simplify the task without obliging us to
completely ignore the effects of value specificity. The first is that we may predict the relative
frequency distribution of the specific value frequencies. The second that we may use the distribution
to make our own relative frequency categories as needed for the desired accuracy. Since any
ordering of the specific values is arbitrary, we order them by relative frequency. The problem
reduces to modeling the distribution of the specific values and partitioning the predicted coincidence
values into as many or as few values as may be practical to use.
