Bias in Zipf's Law Estimators

Code for the publication Bias in Zipf's Law Estimators.

data

Data used and generated during the project.

simulations

Scripts to run simulations such as simulating data to test estimator bias.

utilities

Includes the code to run various estimators. Including Clauset et al's MLE, Hanel et al's MLE, and approximate Bayesian computation population monte carlo.

visualisation

All code used to generate figures in the paper.

During the course of the project, more code and data was generated. This repo contains a minimal version of the code for the sake of keeping things simple and easy to find.

For enquiries please contact charlie.pilgrim@warwick.ac.uk