Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho; Brita Elvevåg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009411

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Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ,

* E-mail: rferrericancho@lsi.upc.edu

Affiliation Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Brita Elvevåg

Affiliation Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho,
Brita Elvevåg

Published: March 9, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009411

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citation use

Posted by beckon on 18 Mar 2010 at 16:21 GMT

A remarkable exception is [21]
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009411#article1.body1.sec3.p4

I think bracketed citations to literature are usually treated like footnotes, so that the sentences make sense without them. The use of the citation here and elsewhere in the text seems a bit unusual and hard to read, though this usage has the advantage of brevity.

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RE: citation use

rferrericancho replied to beckon on 20 Mar 2010 at 17:19 GMT

Right. Thank you. It would be more appropriate to write something like: "A remarkable exception is Ref. [21]".

No competing interests declared.

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Posted by beckon on 18 Mar 2010 at 16:21 GMT

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rferrericancho replied to beckon on 20 Mar 2010 at 17:19 GMT