Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law
Full article summary: Newman, M.E.J., 2005. Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law. Contemporary Physics 46, 323-351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107510500052444
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