Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data
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Aaron Clauset, 2 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, and M. E. J. Newman Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM Review
دوره 51 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009