Fitting Chinese syllable-to-character mapping spectrum by the beta rank function

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1515-1518

  Li, Wentian ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Beta rank function; Chinese language; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAPPING;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BETA RANK FUNCTIONS; CHINESE LANGUAGE; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; POWER-LAW FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SUM OF SQUARE ERRORS; ZIPF'S LAW;

OPEN DATA;

EID: 84655164885     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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