On the Weak form of Zipf's law

DOI10.2307/3212955zbMath0435.60017OpenAlexW2332014898WikidataQ56864011 ScholiaQ56864011MaRDI QIDQ3875003

Wen-chen Chen

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3212955

zbMATH Keywords

convergence in distributionmaximum likelihood estimateconvergence in probabilityZipf's lawasymptotic normalitiesDirichlet-multinomial urn model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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