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The common patterns of abundance: the log series and Zipf's law
In a language corpus, the probability that a word occurs n times is often proportional to 1/ n (2). Assigning rank, s, to words according to their abundance, log s vs log n typically has a slope of minus one. That simple Zipf's law pattern also arises in the population sizes of cities, the size...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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F1000 Research Limited
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31069071 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.18681.1 |