A new short proof of Naranan's theorem, explaining Lotka's law and Zipf's law

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2581-2583

  Egghe, Leo ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOTKA'S LAWS; ZIPF'S LAW;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 78449281412     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21431     Document Type: Article

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