Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7382631 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2011 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Empirical testing of the origin of Zipf's law with a unique database. ► A mechanism of Zipf's law is proportional growth + stochastic birth and death. ► Finite lifetime effect or a large σ leads to power law exponents close to 1.
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