Fitting heavy tailed distributions: The powerlaw package

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Gillespie, Colin S ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation; Fitting; Heavy tailed; Pareto; Power laws; R; Zipf

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925610812     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v064.i02     Document Type: Article

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