Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Contemporary Physics

• Publication date

  2005-09-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1080/00107510500052444
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