Two samples test for discrete power-law distributions
Methodology
2015-03-03 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Physics and Society
Applications
Abstract
Power-law distributions occur in wide variety of physical, biological, and social phenomena. In this paper, we propose a statistical hypothesis test based on the log-likelihood ratio to assess whether two samples of discrete data are drawn from the same power-law distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.00643,
title = {Two samples test for discrete power-law distributions},
author = {Alessandro Bessi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00643},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures