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zipf.fnc

Zipf's rank frequency distribution

This function calculates Zipf's rank-frequency distribution for a text vector, and optionally produces the rank-frequency plot.

zipf.fnc(text, plot = FALSE)

`text`	A character vector containing a text.
`plot`	Logical, if TRUE, a rank-frequency plot is shown on the graphics device.

A data frame with variables

`frequency`	Word Frequencies, ordered from large to small.
`freqOfFreq`	Frequencies of word frequencies.
`rank`	Zipf rank.

R. H. Baayen

Zipf, G. K. (1935) The Psycho-Biology of Language, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Zipf, G. K. (1949) Human Behavior and the Principle of the Least Effort. An Introduction to Human Ecology, New York: Hafner.

Baayen, R. H. (2001) Word Frequency Distributions, Dordrecht: Kluwer.

## Not run: 
data(alice)
alice.zipf = zipf.fnc(alice, plot = TRUE) 
head(alice.zipf)

## End(Not run)

Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics

v1.5.0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

R. H. Baayen <harald.baayen@uni-tuebingen.de>, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan <elnaz.shafaei-bajestan@uni-tuebingen.de>

Initial release

2019-01-28