Two Universality Properties Associated with the Monkey Model of Zipf’s Law

The distribution of word probabilities in the monkey model of Zipf’s law is associated with two universality properties: (1) the exponent in the approximate power law approaches −1 as the alphabet size increases and the letter p...

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Main Authors: Richard Perline, Ron Perline
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/3/89