Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:statistical_law
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| gptkbp:appliesTo |
natural languages
city populations income rankings |
| gptkbp:category |
gptkb:empirical_law
statistical regularity |
| gptkbp:describes |
frequency distribution of words
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| gptkbp:explains |
few words are very common, many are rare
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| gptkbp:form |
frequency is inversely proportional to rank
|
| gptkbp:formedBy |
1930s
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| gptkbp:hasEquation |
f(r) ~ 1/r^s
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| gptkbp:namedAfter |
gptkb:George_Kingsley_Zipf
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| gptkbp:parameter |
s ≈ 1 for natural languages
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| gptkbp:publishedIn |
gptkb:Human_Behavior_and_the_Principle_of_Least_Effort
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Benford's_law
gptkb:Pareto_principle power law |
| gptkbp:usedIn |
ecology
economics information science linguistics physics demography bibliometrics web traffic analysis |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Good–Turing_frequency_estimation
gptkb:Pareto_distribution |
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
6
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Zipf's law
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