Sequences of purchases in credit card data reveal lifestyles in urban populations
Zipf-like distributions characterize a wide set of phenomena in physics, biology, economics, and social sciences. In human activities, Zipf's law describes, for example, the frequency of appearance of words in a text or the purchase types in shopping patterns. In the latter, the uneven distribu...
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Springer Nature
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124874 |