Aaron Clauset
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Making Empirical Power-Law Distributions Useful or: How to Fit Curves & Do Statistical Validation With High- Variance Data, and an Application of these Techniques to Some Empirical “Power Laws” (with Predictable results). Aaron Clauset. Algorithms, Inference, and Statistical Physics Workshop 4 May 2007, Santa Fe Institute. Joint with Cosma Shalizi and M. E. J. Newman.
See also Newman Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law Contemporary Physics 46, 323-351 (2005)
R and Matlab software and documentation (Updated 29 June 2007) for the 2007 review article, "Power-law distributions in empirical data," by Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, and M. E. J. Newman.
