Pareto versus lognormal: A maximum entropy test
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Pareto versus lognormal: a maximum entropy test.
It is commonly found that distributions that seem to be lognormal over a broad range change to a power-law (Pareto) distribution for the last few percentiles. The distributions of many physical, natural, and social events (earthquake size, species abundance, income and wealth, as well as file, city, and firm sizes) display this structure. We present a test for the occurrence of power-law tails ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.026104