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Sorin Adam Matei

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Entropy and Gini: is entropy different from inequality?

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…

Where do power laws come from

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…