A review of power laws in real life phenomena

DOI10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.01.013zbMath1248.60020OpenAlexW2044506965MaRDI QIDQ450333

J. Herrera, D. Rodríguez-Gómez

Publication date: 13 September 2012

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3814

zbMATH Keywords

applicationsPareto lawheavy tail distributionspower law behaviorZipf law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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