"New methods of statistical economics," revisited: Short versus long tails and Gaussian versus power-law distributions

Complexity

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 55-65

  Mandelbrot, Benoit B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New models for mild versus wild statistical variability; Risk; The starkly non Brownian character of competitive prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 60749099464     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20264     Document Type: Review

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