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Does Zipf’s law hold for Polish cities? [PDF]
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2016 In this paper we study Zipf’s law, which postulates that the product of a city’s population and its rank (the number of cities with a larger or equal population) is constant for every city in a given region.
Cieślik Andrzej, Teresiński Jan
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Reconsidering Zipf’s law for regional development: The case of settlements and cities in Croatia
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2018 Zipf’s law is a striking regularity in the field of urban economics that states that the sizes of cities should follow the rank-size distribution. Rank-size distribution, or the rank-size rule, is a commonly observed statistical relationship between the ...
Josic Hrvoje, Bašić Maja
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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws [PDF]
Animal CognitionLinguistic laws are increasingly used as markers of efficiency in non-human communication, but it remains unclear how rapidly these patterns can emerge.
Mason Youngblood
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Growing inequality in systems showing Zipf’s law
Journal of Physics: Complexity, 2023 A central problem in economics and statistics is the assessment of income or wealth inequality starting from empirical data. Here we focus on the behavior of Gini index, one of the most used inequality measures, in presence of Zipf’s law, a situation ...
Giordano De Marzo +2 more
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Zipf's law revisited: Spoken dialog, linguistic units, parameters, and the principle of least effort. [PDF]
Psychon Bull Rev, 2023 The ubiquitous inverse relationship between word frequency and word rank is commonly known as Zipf’s law. The theoretical underpinning of this law states that the inverse relationship yields decreased effort in both the speaker and hearer, the so-called ...
Linders GM, Louwerse MM.
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Compression principle and Zipf's Law of brevity in infochemical communication. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 Compression has been presented as a general principle of animal communication. Zipf’s Law of brevity is a manifestation of this postulate and can be generalized as the tendency of more frequent communicative elements to be shorter.
Hernández-Fernández A, Torre IG.
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Autonomic Nervous System Influences on Cardiovascular Self-Organized Criticality
Entropy, 2023 Cardiovascular self-organized criticality has recently been demonstrated. We studied a model of autonomic nervous system changes to better characterize heart rate variability self-organized criticality.
Jacques-Olivier Fortrat, Guillaume Ravé
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Zipf's law leads to Heaps' law: analyzing their relation in finite-size systems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BACKGROUND: Zipf's law and Heaps' law are observed in disparate complex systems. Of particular interests, these two laws often appear together. Many theoretical models and analyses are performed to understand their co-occurrence in real systems, but it ...
Linyuan Lü, Zi-Ke Zhang, Tao Zhou
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Does Zipf’s law of abbreviation shape birdsong? [PDF]
PLoS Computational BiologyR. Tucker Gilman +3 more
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Dynamical approach to Zipf's law
Physical Review Research, 2021 The rank-size plots of a large number of different physical and socio-economic systems are usually said to follow Zipf's law, but a unique framework for the comprehension of this ubiquitous scaling law is still lacking.
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