ashokgit/zipfdistributiongenerator

A PHP Library for Generating Zipf Distribution

0.0.3 2018-04-30 17:48 UTC

Requires

• php: ^5.6.0 || ^7.0

MIT

• Ashok Poudel

• Zipf Distribution
• PHP Zipf Distribution Generator

README

A PHP Library for Generating Zipf Distribution

Wikipedia Definition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law Zipf's law (/ˈzɪf/) is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. Zipf distribution is related to the zeta distribution, but is not identical.

Installation

composer require ashokgit/zipfdistributiongenerator

Usage

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use ashokgit\ZipfDistributionGenerator;

$noOfItems = 10;

$zipf = new ZipfDistributionGenerator;
$zipf->size = 10;
$zipf->skew = .5;
$zipf->generate();

$probability = [];
for ($i = 1; $i < $noOfItems; $i++) {
    $probability[] = $zipf->getProbability($i);
}

print_r($probability);

Result: a Zipf's Distribution over 10 items

Array
(
    [0] => 0.35348576237902
    [1] => 0.17674288118951
    [2] => 0.11782858745967
    [3] => 0.088371440594754
    [4] => 0.070697152475803
    [5] => 0.058914293729836
    [6] => 0.050497966054145
    [7] => 0.044185720297377
    [8] => 0.039276195819891
    [9] => 0.035348576237902
)