Unzipping Zipf's law

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Lada Adamic
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[1] Lada Adamic is in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems,
[2] University of Michigan,undefined
[3] Ann Arbor,undefined
[4] Michigan 48109-1107,undefined
[5] USA.,undefined
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Nature | 2011年 / 474卷
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One mathematical model can account for power-law distributions in a variety of systems. Eschewing system-specific assumptions, it utilizes a shared feature of the observed distributions: they all describe the division of items into groups.
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