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Applied and theoretical statistics: e.g. statistical inference, regression, time series, multivariate analysis, data analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo, design of experiments.

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Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf's law?

There's a recent paper on the arXiv by Schwab et al. that looks to contain a nice derivation of Zipf's law, which arises in random systems affected by a hidden variable (something like common inputs t …
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