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There are many ways to derive Zipf's Law. Does yours make any novel predictions about systems that exhivit this behavior?
by canjobear 10y ago
There are many ways to derive Zipf's Law. Does yours make any novel predictions about systems that exhivit this behavior?
- CephalopodMD 10y agoIf you read the introduction, it does. In particular, it explains how normalizing for parts of speech (all nouns, verbs, etc) zipf's law does not emerge. This method predicts that phenomenon as parts of speech being a latent variable, which they do not believe other models can do.