Table 2 Comparison of theoretical and empirical pattern statistic mean and standard deviation on Mycoplasma genitalium. m S σ S ^ MathType@MTEF@5@5@+=feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfKttLearuWrP9MDH5MBPbIqV92AaeXatLxBI9gBaebbnrfifHhDYfgasaacH8akY=wiFfYdH8Gipec8Eeeu0xXdbba9frFj0=OqFfea0dXdd9vqai=hGuQ8kuc9pgc9s8qqaq=dirpe0xb9q8qiLsFr0=vr0=vr0dc8meaabaqaciaacaGaaeqabaqabeGadaaakeaacuWGtbWugaqcaaaa@2DEB@ σ ^ MathType@MTEF@5@5@+=feaafiart1ev1aaatCvAUfKttLearuWrP9MDH5MBPbIqV92AaeXatLxBI9gBaebbnrfifHhDYfgasaacH8akY=wiFfYdH8Gipec8Eeeu0xXdbba9frFj0=OqFfea0dXdd9vqai=hGuQ8kuc9pgc9s8qqaq=dirpe0xb9q8qiLsFr0=vr0=vr0dc8meaabaqaciaacaGaaeqabaqabeGadaaakeaaiiGacuWFdpWCgaqcaaaa@2E86@ 1 42.48 0.38 42.47 0.40 2 44.62 0.78 44.62 0.81 3 55.96 1.49 56.02 1.52 4 55.06 3.39 55.48 3.48 5 56.49 10.35 57.21* 9.09* We consider the pattern W = acgtacgt with Nobs = 30. The sequence length is ℓ = 580 076, we use an order m Markov model and a sample of size M = 1 000. (*) for 123 terms in the sample we got P (N) = 0 and hence, SN was not computed.