Unzipping Zipf's law

Lada Adamic ()
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Lada Adamic: Lada Adamic is in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1107, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 474, issue 7350, 164-165

Abstract: One mathematical model can account for power-law distributions in a variety of systems. Eschewing system-specific assumptions, it utilizes a shared feature of the observed distributions: they all describe the division of items into groups.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/474164a

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