Zipf-Mandelbrot law
The Zipf-Mandelbrot law (also known as the Pareto-Zipf law)
is a power-law distribution on ranked data, named after the Harvard linguistics professor George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950)
who suggested regularity in texts, and the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924), who generalized it. The distribution of words ranked by their frequency in a random
corpus of text is generally a power-law distribution, known
as Zipf's law. If one plots the frequency rank of words contained in a large
corpus of text data versus the number of occurrences or actual
frequencies, one obtains a power-law distribution,
with exponent close to one (but see Gelbukh and Sidoro 2001).
External links Z. K. Silagadze: Citations and the Zipf-Mandelbrot's law NIST: Zipf's law W. Li's References on Zipf's law
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