A Brief History of Generative Models for Power Law and Lognormal Distributions
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Michael Mitzenmacher
| Venue: | INTERNET MATHEMATICS |
| Citations: | 415 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Mitzenmacher_abrief,
author = {Michael Mitzenmacher},
title = {A Brief History of Generative Models for Power Law and Lognormal Distributions},
journal = {INTERNET MATHEMATICS},
year = {},
volume = {1},
pages = {226--251}
}
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Abstract
Recently, I became interested in a current debate over whether file size distributions are best modelled by a power law distribution or a a lognormal distribution. In trying
