The statistical laws of popularity: Universal properties of the box-office dynamics of motion pictures

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kumar Pan, Raj ^a,b   Sinha, Sitabhra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; STATISTICAL LAWS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; STYLIZED FACTS; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; TIME-PERIODS; UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES; VALUE DISTRIBUTION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MOTION PICTURES;

EID: 78650160620     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/115004     Document Type: Article

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