Zipf's law

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释义与例句

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    The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.

词源

From Zipf + law. After George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist. From the observed distribution of a word's frequency of occurrence against its rank of occurrence, discovered in Zipf's research, as a graph of logarithm of frequency against logarithm of ranking resulting in a straight line with −1 slope.

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