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    and the Zipf–Mandelbrot's law Zipf's Law examples and modelling (1985) Complex systems: Unzipping Zipf's law (2011) Benford's law, Zipf's law, and the...
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  • data, named after the linguist George Kingsley Zipf, who suggested a simpler distribution called Zipf's law, and the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who...
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    1881. The law is similar in concept, though not identical in distribution, to Zipf's law. A set of numbers is said to satisfy Benford's law if the leading...
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    within nations, and many other collections of data. He is the eponym of Zipf's law, which states that while only a few words are used very often, many or...
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    frequencies of words in a text (Zipf's law) 90–9–1 principle on wikis (also referred to as the 1% rule) Richardson's Law for the severity of violent conflicts...
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    In linguistics, the brevity law (also called Zipf's law of abbreviation) is a linguistic law that qualitatively states that the more frequently a word...
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  • philologist noted for Zipf's law Christoph Zipf, professional tennis player from Germany Jonathan Zipf, German triathlete Redl-Zipf This page lists people...
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    Bitcoin to the Zipf's Law and the theoretical Metcalfe result. The Metcalfe's Law is a critical component of Santostasi's Bitcoin Power Law Theory. In a...
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    Herdan (1960). Under mild assumptions, the Herdan–Heaps law is asymptotically equivalent to Zipf's law concerning the frequencies of individual words within...
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  • log-normal, as predicted by Gibrat's law. While the city size distribution is often associated with Zipf's law, this holds only in the upper tail. When...
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