| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8203891 | Physics Letters A | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Mehri and Jamaati (2017) [18] used Zipf's law to model word frequencies in Holy Bible translations for one hundred live languages. We compare the fit of Zipf's law to a number of Pareto type distributions. The latter distributions are shown to provide the best fit, as judged by a number of comparative plots and error measures. The fit of Zipf's law appears generally poor.
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Authors
Martin Wiegand, Saralees Nadarajah, Yuancheng Si,