Zipfian distribution

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Noun

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Zipfian distribution (plural Zipfian distributions)

  1. (mathematical statistics) A discrete probability distribution whose rank-frequency distribution is an inverse power law relation.
    • 2010, Joe Celko, Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 108:
      A Zipfian distribution occurs when some values appear much more often than others. When you diagram it on a graph with logarithm scales on both axes, you get a straight line (see Figure 12.1).
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