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Fitting power-law distributions to empirical data, according to the method of Clauset, Shalizi and Newman
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Calculate skewness and kurtosis #7

Closed ntamas closed 11 years ago

ntamas commented 11 years ago

It would be nice if plfit could calculate the skewness and kurtosis of the sample so one could judge whether it is skewed and fat-tailed enough to be a power-law or not. (The rationale is that even a sample of 10000 items from a normal distribution with mean=50 and sd=10 could have a large p-value because xmin becomes large).

ntamas commented 11 years ago

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