27 Sep
Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto: excellent tutorial
Excellent tutorial by Lada A. Adamic: Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial.
All three terms are used to describe phenomena where large events are rare, but small ones quite common.
They refer to the same phenomena, just with different exponents. Read the tutorial for a very short and very clear explanation.
If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe to my RSS Feed
(you can always unsubscribe later)
Respond to this post