Strong, weak and false inverse power laws

DOI10.1214/088342304000000215zbMath1100.62013OpenAlexW1998736328MaRDI QIDQ2503969

Richard Perline

Publication date: 22 September 2006

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/088342304000000215

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value theorylognormal distributionPareto distributionmixture distributionsGumbel distributionsPareto--Zipf laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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