Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law

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Newman, MEJ. “Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf’s Law”. Contemporary Physics, vol. 46, no. 5, 2005, pp. 323-51, https://doi.org/10.1080/00107510500052444.
Newman, M. (2005). Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law. Contemporary Physics, 46(5), 323-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107510500052444
Newman, MEJ. “Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf’s Law”. Contemporary Physics 46, no. 5 (2005): 323-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107510500052444.
Newman M. Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law. Contemporary Physics. 2005;46(5):323-51.
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