Evidence for the exponential distribution of income in the USA

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 585-589

  Dragulescu A ^a   Yakovenko, V M ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

02.50. r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; 87.23.Ge Dynamics of social systems; 89.90.+n Other topics in areas of applied and interdisciplinary physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010749779     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00011112     Document Type: Article

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