Comments on: Save Zipf’s Law (new anti-credulous-power-law article) http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/02/save-zipfs-law/ cognition, language, social systems; statistics, visualization, computation Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/02/save-zipfs-law/#comment-350927 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho Thu, 30 May 2013 11:12:36 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-350927 Really?

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Elvevåg, B. (2010). Random texts do not exhibit the real Zipf’s law-like rank distribution. PLoS ONE 5 (3), e9411.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009411

]]> By: Peter Nelson http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/02/save-zipfs-law/#comment-177791 Peter Nelson Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:04:41 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-177791 I’d like to point out there are some pretty boring (i.e., monkeys and typewriters) mechanistic processes which could also explain Zipf’s law: http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/pub/ieee92_pre.pdf

]]> By: Paul Moore http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/02/save-zipfs-law/#comment-173397 Paul Moore Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:17:17 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-173397 You just invented a new kind type of plot – the ‘bozo plot’. Give it a few months and it will be in the dropdown on Matlab.

]]> By: The Spamlist! » Cozy Catastrophes http://brenocon.com/blog/2012/02/save-zipfs-law/#comment-121935 The Spamlist! » Cozy Catastrophes Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:44:42 +0000 http://brenocon.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-121935 [...] power law is a good fit and that none of the alternatives considered is plausible”, which was Zipf’s law of word frequency distributions. We were of course aware that when people claim there are power laws, they usually only mean that [...]

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