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| #Zipf, Power-law, #Pareto - a ranking tutorial A line appears on a log-log plot. One hears shouts of "Zipf!","power-law!","Pareto"! Well, which one is it? The answer is that it's quite possibly all three. Let's try to disentangle some of the confusion surrounding these matters and then tie it all back neatly together. All three terms are used to describe phenomena where large events are rare, but small ones quite common. For example, there are few large earthquakes but many small ones. There are a few mega-cities, but many small towns. There are few words, such as 'and' and 'the' that occur very frequently, but many which occur rarely. &neo 2015-10-20 17:38:08 |