Zipf's law, power laws and maximum entropy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Visser, Matt ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM ENTROPY; POWER-LAW; RANDOM GROUPS; SHANNON ENTROPY; SINGLE CONSTRAINT; SOFTWARE STRUCTURES; SPECIFIC COST; ZIPF'S LAW;

COST FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84876765882     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/4/043021     Document Type: Article

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