Friday, 23 June 2006

st.statistics - What is the difference between the Power Law and Zipf's Law?

Zipf's law is a special case of power laws, with power -1. (The harmonic series diverges, so the distribution in Zipf's law is truncated at some point. But the essential character is the point: the probabilities decline like a power of the argument.)

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