Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 323-351

  Newman, M E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 24744469980     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107510500052444     Document Type: Article

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