Two samples test for discrete power-law distributions

2015/03/02 by Alessandro Bessi, Bessi, Alessandro
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Applications (stat.AP) #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Data Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Methodology (stat.ME) #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1503.00643

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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.

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