Snooker Statistics and Zipf’s Law

Zipf’s law is well known in linguistics: the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank. This is a special case of a more general power law, a common phenomenon in many kinds of real-world statistical data. Here, it is shown that snooker statistics also follow such a mathematical patt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wim Hordijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Stats
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-905X/5/4/58