Power laws in cities population, financial markets and internet sites (scaling in systems with a variable number of components)

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 279-288

  Blank, Aharon ^a   Solomon, Sorin ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTERNET; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MULTIPLICATIVE STOCHASTIC THEORY;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0034319321     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00464-7     Document Type: Article

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