Are your data really Pareto distributed?

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.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Cirillo, Pasquale
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 392.2013, 23, p. 5947-5962
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Paretianity \| Power laws \| Zipf plot \| Meplot \| Graphical tools

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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