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His data appears to be Zipfian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law In this context, it's normal to graph wi
by blahedo 12y ago
His data appears to be Zipfian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
In this context, it's normal to graph with the x axis that is the "index in sorted list" as the author has done, although somewhat more common to make the y axis logarithmic.
- christopheraden 12y agoDepends on whether you represent sick-time as continuous or discrete. Zipf's Law takes support on the integers, whereas the Exponential takes support on all positive reals.