Lead-zinc resource prediction in India: An application of Zipf's law

Comparação da Lei de Zipf em conteúdos textuais e discursos orais

“…A Lei de Zipf foi explorada para os mais variados idiomas possíveis, como é o caso da aplicação de sua técnica com o idioma chinês e suas representações (Rousseau;Zhang, 1992;Shtrikman, 1994), bem como para a Índia (Paliwal;Bhatnagar;Haldar, 1986), e como para algumas áreas do conhecimento, como a informação nuclear (Ohnishi, 1993) e a avaliação linguística (Baayen, 1992). …”

Toward a least-effort principle for evaluating prices of elements as indicators of sustainability

“…The observation of Zipf's law is largely empirical. However, based on prior work [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and our own analyses, we suggest that the origin of this relationship is related to a least-effort view. Moreover, the trend is notably accurate.…”

“…The animal behavior scientist L. S. Tsai stated that "Among several alternatives of behavior leading to equivalent satisfaction of some potent organic need, the animal, within the limits of its discriminative ability, tends finally to select that which involves the least expenditure of energy". 12 Zipf's law has been invoked in mining [13][14][15][16][17] and geosciences. [18][19][20] According to Mandelbrot, 9 for most efficient communication the frequency of words transmitted in languages is inversely proportional to rank, another common invocation of Zipf's law; in general, power laws prevail in phenomena following Zipf's law.…”

Fractals in Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Biophysics

“…It was concluded that only 25% of the total resources had been discovered. It was therefore suggested that further explorations be made (Paliwal et al, 1986).…”