Yule-Simon distribution

1 · John Cook · Dec. 10, 2021, 4:47 p.m.
The Yule-Simon distribution, named after Udny Yule and Herbert Simon, is a discrete probability with density The semicolon in f(k; ρ) suggests that we think of f as a function of k, with a fixed parameter ρ [1]. The way the distribution is written above shows the connection to the beta function, but for our […] The post Yule-Simon distribution first appeared on John D. Cook....