ScienceDirect – European Economic Review : Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change. Abstract: “The analogy between information theory and income distribution analysis is exploited to derive a number of measures of distributional change. These include not only counterparts of the…
Newman looks at the meaning of power law distributions… When the probability of measuring a particular value of some quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf’s…