Reply to "Final Note" by Benoit Mandelbrot

Dr. Mandelbrot's original objections (1959) to using the Yule process to explain the phenomena of word frequencies were refuted in Simon (1960) , and are now mostly abandoned. The present “Reply” refutes the almost entirely new arguments introduced by Dr. Mandelbrot in his “Final Note,” and demonstrates again the adequacy of the models in 1955.