Information Density Phenomena and Random Packing.

Abstract

A density model for various phenomena with densities much smaller than those explored by the Zipf model is developed. The density of spherical random packing in n dimensions serves as a model for relative frequency of length of monosyllabic words in English and also for the relative frequency of degree holders in the U.S. at various levels of educational attainment.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 11, 1974
Accession Number
ADA013429

Entities

People

  • Herbert Solomon
  • James L. Dolby

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Frequency

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Theoretical Analysis.