Explaining the uneven distribution of numbers in nature: the laws of Benford and Zipf

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DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00633-6zbMath0978.60032WikidataQ56068766 ScholiaQ56068766MaRDI QIDQ5933070

Alessandro Vespignani, Luciano Pietronero, Valentino Tosatti, E. Tosatti

Publication date: 31 May 2001

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-4371(00)00633-6


60G07: General theory of stochastic processes


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