Zipf's law
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zipf-s-law-206-5507785
title:
Zipf's law
text:
Zipf's law is an empirical law that often holds, approximately, when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order. It states that the value of the nth entry is inversely proportional to n. The best known instance of Zipf's law applies to the frequency table of words in a text or corpus of natural language: word frequency ∝ 1 word rank. It is usually found that the most common word occurs approximately twice as often as the next common one, three times as often as the third most common
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Probability distribution
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
date created:
2001-11-04T18:42:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T15:28:12Z
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