LOTKA: A program to fit a power law distribution to observed frequency data

Cybermetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Rousseau, Brendan ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^a  

^a Oakies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer program; Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Lotka's law; Maximum likelihood estimation; Nicholls' methodology; Power law distribution; Zipf

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001995217     PISSN: 11375019     EISSN: 11375019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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