The relationship between Zipf and Benford

The zipf distribution, where log(frequency) = log(rank), used describe the size distribution of firms, and the popularity of web sites is related to Benford’s law, which describes the frequency distribution of digits in non-random data (prices, for example.) Interesting stuff.

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