Heavy-tailed probability distributions in social sciences
Physics and Society
2023-01-24 v1 Probability
Abstract
We present an overview of possible reasons for the appearance of heavy-tailed distributions in applications to the natural sciences. These distributions include the laws of Pareto, Lotka, and some new ones. The reasons are illustrated using suitable toy models. Keywords: heavy-tailed distributions; Pareto law; Lotka law; Zipf law; probability generating function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.09393,
title = {Heavy-tailed probability distributions in social sciences},
author = {Lev B. Klebanov and Yulia V. Kuvaeva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09393},
year = {2023}
}