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Bias in Zipf’s law estimators

The prevailing maximum likelihood estimators for inferring power law models from rank-frequency data are biased. The source of this bias is an inappropriate likelihood function. The correct likelihood function is derived and shown to be computationally intractable. A more computationally efficient m...

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Autores principales: Pilgrim, Charlie, Hills, Thomas T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8397718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34453066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96214-w