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A Critical Examination of Simon's Model of Certain Distribution Functions in Linguistics
Author(s) -
Herdan Gustav
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985560
Subject(s) - linguistics , philosophy
In this article Dr Herdan considers some of the pitfalls which lie in the paths of those who construct mathematical models, with particular reference to the study of linguistics. He then shows how some of the properties of word frequency distributions can be explained.