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Zipf's law

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Zipf's law () is an empirical law stating that when a set of measured values is sorted in decreasing order, the value of the n-th entry is often approximately inversely proportional to n.

Zipf's law - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Probability distribution For the linguistics law on word length, see Zipf's law of abbreviation . A plot of the frequency of each word as a function of its frequency rank for two English language texts: Culpeper's Complete Herbal (1652) and H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) in a log-log scale. The dashed line is the ideal law y ∝ 1 x {\textstyle y\propto {\frac {1}{x}}} . Zipf's law ( / z ɪ f / ) is an empirical law stating that when a set of measured values is sorted in decreasing order, the value of the n -

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