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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?

Xavier Gabaix has several papers (e.g. here and here) that look at the emergence of Zipf's law in city sizes as a natural phenomenon.
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