Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law Many of the things that scientists measure have a typical size or “scale”—a typical value around which individual measurements are centred. A simple example would

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1 Erstellung eines OSM Straßengraphen mit TMC LCL Informationen Enrico STEIGER und Alexander ZIPF Universität Heidelberg, Lehrstuhl für Geoinformatik, ·

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1 Uncovering latent mobility patterns from Twitter during mass events Enrico STEIGER, Timothy ELLERSIEK, Bernd RESCH and Alexander ZIPF GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University/Germany · -

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Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf’s World∗ Julian di Giovanni International Monetary Fund Andrei A. Levchenko University of Michigan

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• Technology
• International trade
• Trade facilitation and development
• Productivity
• Labour economics
• Monopoly
• Monopolistic competition
• Economics
• Economic theories
• Business

Causality in historical language change: The co-evolution of population structure and lexical diversity Christian Bentz Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge Darwin College, Silver Street,

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• Sociolinguistics
• Quantitative linguistics
• Language change
• Comparative linguistics
• Origin of language
• Language
• Second-language acquisition
• George Kingsley Zipf
• Language death
• Linguistics
• Science
• Historical linguistics

Newcomb, Benford, Pareto, Heaps, and Zipf Are arbitrary numbers random? Nelson H. F. Beebe Research Professor University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB

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Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law arXiv:cond-mat/0412004v3 [cond-mat.stat-mech] 29 May 2006 M. E. J. Newman Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann

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The Principle of Least Effort and diachronic lexical change “The magnitude of words tends...to stand in an inverse...relationship to the number of occurrences.” This is the Principle of Least Effort, or PLE (Zipf, 19

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Universidad de Alicante Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform´ aticos La ley de Zipf en la Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes

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Zipf’s Law and Statistical Data on Modern Tibetan Huidan Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 100190

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• Languages of China
• Natural language processing
• Tibetan alphabet
• Tibetan script
• Standard Tibetan
• Om
• N-gram
• Tibetan languages
• Bigram
• Linguistics
• Languages of Asia
• Tibeto-Burman languages