Marshall-Olkin Extended Zipf Distribution

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.1304.4540MaRDI QIDQ136423arXivFDO

Authors Marta Pérez-Casany, Aina Casellas

Publication date 16 April 2013

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.1304.4540

Abstract: The Zipf distribution also known as scale-free distribution or discrete Pareto distribution, is the particular case of Power Law distribution with support the strictly positive integers. It is a one-parameter distribution with a linear behaviour in the log-log scale. In this paper the Zipf distribution is generalized by means of the Marshall-Olkin transformation. The new model has more flexibility to adjust the probabilities of the first positive integer numbers while keeping the linearity of the tail probabilities. The main properties of the new model are presented, and several data sets are analyzed in order to show the gain obtained by using the generalized model.

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