Benford, Zipf and the blogosphere

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 689-692

  Depken II, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERNET; RANKING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 47649099708     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600735270     Document Type: Article

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