Are your data really Pareto distributed?

Pasquale Cirillo

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, vol. 392, issue 23, 5947-5962

Abstract: Pareto distributions, and power laws in general, have demonstrated to be very useful models to describe very different phenomena, from physics to finance. In recent years, the econophysical literature has proposed a large amount of papers and models justifying the presence of power laws in economic data.

Keywords: Paretianity; Power laws; Zipf plot; Meplot; Graphical tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.07.061

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