Zipfian distribution

English

Noun

Zipfian distribution (plural Zipfian distributions)

1. (mathematical statistics) A discrete probability distribution whose rank-frequency distribution is an inverse power law relation.
   • 2010, Joe Celko, Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 108:

     A Zipfian distribution occurs when some values appear much more often than others. When you diagram it on a graph with logarithm scales on both axes, you get a straight line (see Figure 12.1).

Related terms

• Zipf's law

Further reading

• Zipf's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia