TOWARDS A REVIVAL OF THE STATISTICAL LAW OF PARETO

Abstract

This is a defense and illustration of the statistical law of Pareto, and an informal introduction to its role--and that of certain of its kins--in the study of price variations, of income distributions, of the distributions of the sizes of firms and cities, and of related questions in economics and in other social and physical sciences.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 1962
Accession Number
AD0402134

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  • Benoit Mandelbrot

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  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Curve Fitting
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Natural Resources
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
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  • Economics
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