The common patterns of abundance: the log series and Zipf's law [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
In a language corpus, the probability that a word occurs n times is often proportional to 1/n2. 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 sizes of...
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F1000 Research Ltd
2019-03-01
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| Series: | F1000Research |
| Online Access: | https://f1000research.com/articles/8-334/v1 |