Power law of customers' expenditures in convenience stores

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Mizuno, Takayuki ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convenience store; Econophysics; Expenditure distribution; Point of sale; Power law

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349094039     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.035001     Document Type: Article

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