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Quote: the rank-frequency distribution of cities by size leads to a rank-frequency distribution of phone calls by distance

topics > all references > references t-z > QuoteRef: zipfGK_1949 , p. 400



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statistics
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probability
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organizations as systems
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self-regulating systems

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Probability has a great deal to do with … According to our theory … we tend to know increasingly less about persons … [p. 403] [Consider] the estimated distribution of telephone toll … of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company … [If the origin is shifted +100,] the points approximate with astonishing closeness the … explained previously. … [The outlier for messages from 0 to 96 miles] does not include local nontoll messages … the above distribution of toll calls seem to … already discussed theoretically.   Google-1   Google-2

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