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  2. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    Zipf's law (/ z ɪ f /; German pronunciation:) is an empirical law stating that when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order, the value of the n-th entry is often approximately inversely proportional to n. The best known instance of Zipf's law applies to the frequency table of words in a text or corpus of natural language:

  3. Empirical statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    [5] 80% of healthcare expenses in the US are caused by 20% of the population. [6] Zipf's law, described as an "empirical statistical law" of linguistics, [7] is another example. According to the "law", given some dataset of text, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its frequency rank.

  4. Law of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    They are called the strong law of large numbers and the weak law of large numbers. [ 16 ] [ 1 ] Stated for the case where X 1 , X 2 , ... is an infinite sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Lebesgue integrable random variables with expected value E( X 1 ) = E( X 2 ) = ... = μ , both versions of the law state that the ...

  5. Index notation - Wikipedia

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    A vector treated as an array of numbers by writing as a row vector or column vector (whichever is used depends on convenience or context): = (), = Index notation allows indication of the elements of the array by simply writing a i, where the index i is known to run from 1 to n, because of n-dimensions. [1]

  6. Pareto distribution - Wikipedia

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    The Pareto distribution, named after the Italian civil engineer, economist, and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, [2] is a power-law probability distribution that is used in description of social, quality control, scientific, geophysical, actuarial, and many other types of observable phenomena; the principle originally applied to describing the distribution of wealth in a society, fitting the trend ...

  7. Power law - Wikipedia

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    The distributions of a wide variety of physical, biological, and human-made phenomena approximately follow a power law over a wide range of magnitudes: these include the sizes of craters on the moon and of solar flares, [2] cloud sizes, [3] the foraging pattern of various species, [4] the sizes of activity patterns of neuronal populations, [5] the frequencies of words in most languages ...

  8. List of examples of Stigler's law - Wikipedia

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    Boyle's law, which stipulates the reciprocal relation between the pressure and the volume of a gas, was first noted by Richard Towneley and Henry Power. In France, the law is known as Mariotte's law, after Edme Mariotte, who published his results later than Boyle, but crucially added that the relation holds only when temperature is kept constant.

  9. List of rules of inference - Wikipedia

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    Examples: The column-14 operator (OR), shows Addition rule : when p =T (the hypothesis selects the first two lines of the table), we see (at column-14) that p ∨ q =T. We can see also that, with the same premise, another conclusions are valid: columns 12, 14 and 15 are T.