Monday, July 25, 2011

Zipf's law unzipped

http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/4/043004/

Information theory is used to find the most likely distribution of group sizes given the number of objects, groups and the number of objects in the largest group. The result is the dashed curve in the figure. The same striking agreement is found for all data sets investigated.

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