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Zipf's law

Known as: Zipf's laws, Zipf distribution, Zipf 
Zipf's law /ˈzɪf/ is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the… 
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2018
2018
This paper presents preliminary corpusbased evidence from Russian for an “aspectual coding asymmetry”. The main research question… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Ubiquitous mobile devices, such as smartphones, led to an increased popularity of pedestrian related routing applications over… 
2012
2012
In the 1930s, George Kingsley Zipf observed that a few very frequent words make up a very large portion of any text or collection… 
2011
2011
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  • Corpus ID: 2629680
The lookaside buffer and multi-processors, while confirmed in theory, have not until recently been considered structur ed. In… 
2010
2010
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), to acquire only necessary data items, it is effective that each mobile node retrieves data… 
2007
2007
Zipf’s law states that the frequency of occurence of some event as a function of its rank is a power-law function. Using… 
2005
2005
We discuss the meaning of Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation. We remark that Zipf's law is a consequence of a power-law… 
2001
2001
It is shown that the distribution of low variability periods in the activity of human heart rate typically follows a multi… 
1999
1999
Infantile colic is a common condition in paediatric practice (Larson & Ayllon 1990) with very little consensus in medical circles…