Zipf's law, 1/f noise, and fractal hierarchy

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-73

  Chen, Yanguang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

FRACTAL PATTERNS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES; MATHEMATICAL EXPERIMENTS; MULTIFRACTAL PROCESS; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SCALING PHENOMENON; ZIPF DISTRIBUTION;

FRACTALS;

EID: 82255191370     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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