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Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law (Winter 2006) [pdf]
- O__________O 4y agoFound the examples of power laws starting on page-5 interesting; all the following follow power law: Word frequency, Citations of scientific papers, Web hits, Copies of books sold, Telephone calls, Magnitude of earthquakes, Diameter of moon craters, Intensity of solar flares, Intensity of wars, Wealth of the richest people, Frequencies of family names, Populations of cities, etc. Terence Tao also has a post on it here from 2009: - Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-law-and-the-pareto-distribution/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs... Vsause has video on it too: - https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE https://youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE