In This Article, You Will Learn About Numpy Zipf Distribution.
Numpy Zipf Distribution – Before moving ahead, let’s know a bit of Python Pareto Distribution.
Zipf distributions are used to show data samples based on Zipf law.
Zipf’s Law describes an algorithm for determining probability. Each frequency is the reciprocal its rank multiplied with the highest frequency.
It includes two parameters –
a – Parameter Distribution. size - Shape of the returned array.
Example – Creating an array of random numbers of size 3×3 for Pareto distribution.
from numpy import random
z = random.zipf(a=2, size=(3, 3))
print(z)
Output - [[0.33157015 0.78567132 0.05616168] [1.49522206 0.25127247 0.27642687] [0.23563371 1.01420266 0.7143994 ]]
As shown above, it returned an array of shape 3×3 containing random numbers.
Note: Later you will learn more in our Python Zipf Distribution Tutorial.
Visualization of Zipf Distribution
Example – Creating 5000 points but visualizing only values < 25.
from numpy import random import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as kl x = random.zipf(a=2, size=5000) kl.distplot(x[x < 25], kde=False) plt.show()
As a result, it returned visualized Zipf Distribution graph.
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