There is More than a Power Law in Zipf

The largest cities, the most frequently used words, the income of the richest countries, and the most wealthy billionaires, can be all described in terms of Zipf’s Law, a rank-size rule capturing the relation between the frequency of a set of objects or events and their size. It is assumed to be one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cristelli, Matthieu, Batty, Michael, Pietronero, Luciano
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492871/