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The Yule-Simon distribution, named after Udny Yule and Herbert Simon, is a discrete probability with pmf The semicolon in f(k; ρ) suggests that we think of f as a function of k, with a fixed parameter ρ. The way the distribution shows the connection to the beta function, but for our purposes it will be […]The post Yule-Simon distribution first appeared on John D. Cook.