Analysis of Zipf's law: An index approach (Q1819884)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3994868
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3994868 |
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Analysis of Zipf's law: An index approach (English)
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1987
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A rigorous analysis of Zipf's law is made using an index for the sequence of observed values of the variables in a Zipf-type relationship. Three important properties relating rank, count, and frequency are identified. Using this approach, the shape of Zipf-type curves can be described in terms of three distinct regions and two parameters of the Mandelbrot-Zipf law. This result has considerable practical significance, since it provides rigorous foundations for the application of Zipf's law.
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index approach
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Zipf's law
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Mandelbrot-Zipf law
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