Zipf's law unzipped

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/13/4/043004zbMath1448.62018OpenAlexW1985650096MaRDI QIDQ5135834

Seung Ki Baek, Petter Minnhagen, Sebastian Bernhardsson

Publication date: 24 November 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/4/043004

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35)

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Uses Software

• plfit

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