Are your data really Pareto distributed?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.07.061
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- Pasquale Cirillo, 2013. "Are your data really Pareto distributed?," Papers 1306.0100, arXiv.org.
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Paretianity; Power laws; Zipf plot; Meplot; Graphical tools;Statistics
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