Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
2012-07-16
Getting to the Bottom of Statistics
Getting to the Bottom of Statistics – Technische Universitat Darmstadt: Computer scientists at the TU Darmstadt have developed software that, aided by linked open data, i.e., enormous collections of semantically linked data accessible on the Internet, discovers correlations and regularities in statistics and formulates hypotheses regarding its interpretation
2009-10-11
2008-08-01
Zipf drive
Robert Lucky, in "IEEE Spectrum", May 2008
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6173
This article talks about the omnipresence of power-law statistics in natural and social phenomena.
"A good example is Zipf's Law for the usage of English words, named for the 20th century linguist George Kingsley Zipf."
"The most common word, the, is used twice as often as the second most popular word (of) and three times as often as the third (and). The nth most popular word has a relative frequency of use of 1/n."
"All the most common words are short, resulting in very efficient transmission of information"
[If Zipf's Law didn't exist] "it would be almost impossible to learn a foreign language".
This indeed is an interesting insight.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may08/6173
This article talks about the omnipresence of power-law statistics in natural and social phenomena.
"A good example is Zipf's Law for the usage of English words, named for the 20th century linguist George Kingsley Zipf."
"The most common word, the, is used twice as often as the second most popular word (of) and three times as often as the third (and). The nth most popular word has a relative frequency of use of 1/n."
"All the most common words are short, resulting in very efficient transmission of information"
[If Zipf's Law didn't exist] "it would be almost impossible to learn a foreign language".
This indeed is an interesting insight.
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