Zipf’s Law, Hyperbolic Distributions and Entropy Loss

DOI10.1007/11889342_50MaRDI QIDQ5504227zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Harremoës, Flemming Topsøe

Publication date 22 January 2009

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/11889342_50

zbMATH Keywords

entropy losshyperbolic distributionsZipf's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linguistics (91F20) Information theory (general) (94A15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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