Re: [Fwd: Fitting data on a Zipf distribution]

Here's a paper using a Zipf law analysis on music:
Computer Science, abstract
cs.CL/0406015

From: Damian H. Zanette [view email]
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:52:07 GMT   (40kb)

Zipf's law and the creation of musical context
Authors: Damian H. Zanette
Categories: cs.CL cond-mat.stat-mech
Subj-class: Computation and Language; Statistical Mechanics

This article discusses the extension of the notion of context from linguistics to the domain of music. In language, the statistical regularity known as Zipf's law -which concerns the frequency of usage of different words- has been quantitatively related to the process of text generation. This connection is established by Simon's model, on the basis of a few assumptions regarding the accompanying creation of context. Here, it is shown that the statistics of note usage in musical compositions are compatible with the predictions of Simon's model. This result, which gives objective support to the conceptual likeness of context in language and music, is obtained through automatic analysis of the digital versions of several compositions. As a by-product, a quantitative measure of context definiteness is introduced and used to compare tonal and atonal works.

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Roger Bagula wrote:

Hi,
I would like to compute the parametters (C and a) of the following
power law for my data:
f(k)=C/k^a
Any suggestion? Thank you,
    Sylvain

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Subject:
Fitting data on a Zipf distribution
From:
sylvain.gaudan@xxxxxxxxx
Date:
7 Oct 2005 07:41:37 -0700

Newsgroups:
sci.math


Hi,
I would like to compute the parametters (C and a) of the following
power law for my data:
f(k)=C/k^a
Any suggestion? Thank you,
    Sylvain

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