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Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Unobserved Variables

Zipf’s law, which states that the probability of an observation is inversely proportional to its rank, has been observed in many domains. While there are models that explain Zipf’s law in each of them, those explanations are typically domain specific. Recently, methods from statistical physics were...

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Autores principales: Aitchison, Laurence, Corradi, Nicola, Latham, Peter E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5172588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27997544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005110