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Modeling fractal structure of city-size distributions using correlation functions.
PLoS ONE, 2011 Zipf's law is one the most conspicuous empirical facts for cities, however, there is no convincing explanation for the scaling relation between rank and size and its scaling exponent.
Yanguang Chen
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Gibrat’s law, Zipf’s law and Cointegration [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the methods to detect the nature of the urban growth processes. It seems that cointegration testing enables to disentangle two versions of Gibrat’s law: a first one with growth shocks that are iid across time and cities (implying ...
Zumpe, Martin, Lalanne, Aurélie
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From Gibrat’s law to Zipf’s law through cointegration?
, 2020 This article investigates the role of cointegration in the context of urban growth processes. It proposes the use of cointegration tests to distinguish between two versions of Gibrat’s law: a standard formalization with growth shocks that are iid across ...
ZUMPE, Martin, LALANNE, Aurelie
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When iconicity stands in the way of abbreviation: No Zipfian effect for figurative signals.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Zipf's law of abbreviation, relating more frequent signals to shorter signal lengths, applies to sounds in a variety of communication systems, both human and non-human.
Helena Miton, Olivier Morin
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Fitting Ranked Linguistic Data with Two-Parameter Functions
Entropy, 2010 It is well known that many ranked linguistic data can fit well with one-parameter models such as Zipf’s law for ranked word frequencies. However, in cases where discrepancies from the one-parameter model occur (these will come at the two extremes of the ...
Wentian Li +2 more
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Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country [PDF]
The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also for the city size distributions in single German regions.
Suedekum, Jens, Giesen, Kristian
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Emergence of Zipf’s law in the evolution of communication [PDF]
, 2011 Zipf’s law seems to be ubiquitous in human languages and appears to be a universal property of complex communicating systems. Following the early proposal made by Zipf concerning the presence of a tension between the efforts of speaker and hearer in a ...
Fortuny Andreu, Jordi +7 more
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Testing for Zipf’s Law: A Common Pitfall [PDF]
It is noted that the regression procedure commonly used when testing for Zipf’s law is erroneous.Zipf’s law, rank ...
Urzúa, Carlos M.
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Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American cities: an empirical examination [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents a simple method for calculating deviations between actual city size and the size which would correspond to it with a Pareto exponent equal to one (Zipf’s Law).
Rafael, González-Val
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A Refutation of Finite-State Language Models through Zipf's Law for Factual Knowledge. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Dębowski Ł.
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