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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by AlexCoventry on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:56AM (#13283183)
What do you mean by all probability distributions? Any measurable function on a measurable space with Lebesgue integral 1 can be considered a probability distribution, so the answer to the technical interpretation of your question is no.
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by thomasahle on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:06AM (#13283616)
Well, they do all have processes that approximately generate them, as by Monte Carlo sampling.
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