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The distinct flavors of Zipf's law in the rank-size and in the size-distribution representations, and its maximum-likelihood fitting
Alvaro Corral, Isabel Serra, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
In the last years, researchers have realized the difficulties of fitting power-law distributions properly. These difficulties are higher in Zipf's systems, due to the discreteness…
The scaling of the minimum sum of edge lengths in uniformly random trees
Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
The minimum linear arrangement problem on a network consists of finding the minimum sum of edge lengths that can be achieved when the vertices are arranged linearly. Although there…
Information content versus word length in random typing
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
Recently, it has been claimed that a linear relationship between a measure of information content and word length is expected from word length optimization and it has been shown th…