Rank–size distribution is the distribution of size by rank, in decreasing order of size. For example, if a data set consists of items of sizes 5, 100,...
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Zipf's law (redirect from Zipf distribution)
effort – Idea that agents prefer to do what's easiest Rank-size distribution – Statistical distributionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets...
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Long tail (redirect from Long-tail distribution)
of a distribution, but only the property of a distribution being long-tailed. In business, the term long tail is applied to rank-size distributions or rank-frequency...
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primate city distribution is a rank-size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns and no intermediate-sized urban centers...
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Ranking (statistics) (redirect from Rank statistics)
decreasing order of rank is often of interest when values vary widely in scale; this is the rank-size distribution (or rank-frequency distribution), for example...
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1081/sta-120037438. S2CID 13906086. Reed, William J. (2002). "On the rank-size distribution for human settlements". Journal of Regional Science. 42 (1): 1–17...
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Mann–Whitney U test (redirect from Wilcoxon rank-sum test)
populations have the same distribution. Nonparametric tests used on two dependent samples are the sign test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Although Henry...
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Quantile function (redirect from Inverse distribution function)
sampling Percentage point Probability integral transform Quantile Rank–size distribution Ehm, W.; Gneiting, T.; Jordan, A.; Krüger, F. (2016). "Of quantiles...
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defined as the Pearson correlation coefficient between the rank variables. For a sample of size n , {\displaystyle \ n\ ,} the n {\displaystyle \...
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and first applied by Rosin & Rammler (1933) to describe a particle size distribution. The probability density function of a Weibull random variable is...
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The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric rank test for statistical hypothesis testing used either to test the location of a population based on...
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Pareto distribution – Probability distribution Principle of least effort – Idea that agents prefer to do what's easiest Rank-size distribution – Statistical...
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Order statistic (section A small-sample-size example)
polynomial L-estimator – linear combinations of order statistics Rank-size distribution Selection algorithm Sample maximum and minimum Quantile Percentile...
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correlation coefficient Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient Rank product Rank-size distribution Ranking Rankit Ranklet RANSAC Rao–Blackwell theorem Rao-Blackwellisation...
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page. PageRank can be calculated for collections of documents of any size. It is assumed in several research papers that the distribution is evenly divided...
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In statistics, the Kendall rank correlation coefficient, commonly referred to as Kendall's τ coefficient (after the Greek letter τ, tau), is a statistic...
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Central limit theorem (redirect from Central limit distribution theorem)
that if the sample size is large enough, the probability distribution of these averages will closely approximate a normal distribution. The central limit...
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Quantile (category Theory of probability distributions)
probability distribution on a set of even size. Quantiles can also be applied to continuous distributions, providing a way to generalize rank statistics...
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effect size are known. Many effect sizes of different types can be converted to other types, as many estimate the separation of two distributions, so are...
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K.; Islam, Liana; Arefinul Haque, Syed (2017). "Degree distribution, rank-size distribution, and leadership persistence in mediation-driven attachment...
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Percentile (section The nearest-rank method)
nearest-rank methods that return a score from the distribution, although compared to interpolation methods, results can be a bit crude. The Nearest-Rank Methods...
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the parabolic fractal distribution is a type of discrete probability distribution in which the logarithm of the frequency or size of entities in a population...
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sample size n grows sufficiently large, the distribution of p ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {p}}} will be closely approximated by a normal distribution. Using...
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Heaps' law Bradford's law Benford's law Pareto distribution Principle of least effort Rank–size distribution Gabriel Altmann, Michael H. Schwibbe (1989)...
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more general observations than having a theoretical background: Rank–size distribution Examples of supposed "laws" which are incorrect include: Law of...
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In statistics, the percentile rank (PR) of a given score is the percentage of scores in its frequency distribution that are less than that score. Its mathematical...
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geography Poquoson (geographic term) Provisional Administrative Line Rank-size distribution Region Regional geography Rock-cut basin Sense of place Small Island...
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Menzerath's law Bradford's law Benford's law Pareto distribution Principle of least effort Rank–size distribution Zipf GK. 1949 Human behavior and the principle...
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Kruskal–Wallis test (redirect from Kruskal-Wallis Rank Test)
originate from the same distribution. It is used for comparing two or more independent samples of equal or different sample sizes. It extends the Mann–Whitney...
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Kurtosis (redirect from Leptokurtic distribution)
probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. Similar to skewness, kurtosis provides insight into specific characteristics of a distribution. Various...
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