On the Truncated Pareto Distribution with applications
Astrophysics
2011-09-20 v1
Abstract
The Pareto probability distribution is widely applied in different fields such us finance, physics, hydrology, geology and astronomy. This note deals with an application of the Pareto distribution to astrophysics and more precisely to the statistical analysis of mass of stars and of diameters of asteroids. In particular a comparison between the usual Pareto distribution and its truncated version is presented. Finally a possible physical mechanism that produces Pareto tails for the distribution of the masses of stars is suggested.
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@article{arxiv.0804.0308,
title = {On the Truncated Pareto Distribution with applications},
author = {Lorenzo Zaninetti and Mario Ferraro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0308},
year = {2011}
}
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10 pages 6 figures