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Zipf's Law illustrated for the distribution of Gurmukhi glyphs in the Punjabi Bible #106

Open DavidHaslam opened 7 years ago

DavidHaslam commented 7 years ago

My Excel workbook has been updated.

Gurmukhi glyphs count.xlsx

Of particular interest is the chart illustrating how the distribution of the Gurmukhi glyphs substantially matches Zipf's Law.

Zipf's law states that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table.

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Note:

  1. The ranks have been fitted into the range 0% to 100% using the plotting position function (rank-1/3)/(maximum+1/3)
  2. The vertical axis has a logarithmic scale.
  3. The red trendline fits the chart data, with the equation shown.
  4. The square of the regression coefficient was 98.7%