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Interesting. On first pass, Benford’s Law looks a lot like Zipf’s Law. What differentiates Benford’s Law from Zipf’s Law?
by chriselles 6y ago
Interesting.
On first pass, Benford’s Law looks a lot like Zipf’s Law.
What differentiates Benford’s Law from Zipf’s Law?
- pmiller2 6y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law : > It has been argued that Benford's law is a special bounded case of Zipf's law,[22] with the connection between these two laws being explained by their both originating from scale invariant functional relations from statistical physics and critical phenomena.[24] The ratios of probabilities in Benford's law are not constant. The leading digits of data satisfying Zipf's law with s = 1 satisfy Benford's law.
- chriselles 6y agoThank you! I’ll take some time to try and better understand your post.