* Zipf's law (see http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/zipf/). * Want to graph log of freq versus log of rank. GET FILE='c:\\program files\\spss\\world95.sav'. * Suppose we want to test the frequency of religion. AGGREGATE /OUTFILE=* /BREAK=religion /freq = N(region). RANK VARIABLES=freq (D) /RANK INTO rank1 /PRINT=YES /TIES=MEAN . COMPUTE lnfreq=LN( freq). COMPUTE lnrank=LN(rank1). GRAPH /SCATTERPLOT(BIVAR)=lnrank WITH lnfreq /MISSING=LISTWISE.