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Categories: Discrete distributions, Eponyms, Quantitative linguistics, 1949 introductions, Articles with short description
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Zipf's law  Zipf law  Zipf's curve  Zipf's laws  Zipf distribution
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Zipf's law is an empirical law that often holds, approximately, when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order. Wikipedia
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Zipf's law is an empirical law that often holds, approximately, when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order. Wikipedia
Probability distribution Wikidata
The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution. Wiktionary
IS A
theorem
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
George Kingsley Zipf
NAMED AFTER
George Kingsley Zipf
USE
frequency analysis
USED BY
demography
lexicography
bibliometrics
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frequency analysis
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Zipf's curve, Zipf's Law, Zipf's laws, Zipf distribution, Zipf Law, Zipf law, Zipf`s law, Zipfian distribution, Zipfs law, Zipf’s law

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