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Testing equivalence to power law distributions

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We introduce a new test for equivalence to power law distributions. The test is based on the minimum distance method. The critical value can be calculated using the asymptotic approximation or can be estimated by bootstrapping. We apply the proposed test to two real data sets: the city sizes in Germany and the Open American National Corpus. The finite sample performance is studied by simulations, which are based on these real data sets.

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  • Ostrovski, Vladimir, 2022. "Testing equivalence to power law distributions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:181:y:2022:i:c:s0167715221002492
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2021.109287
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    1. Ostrovski, Vladimir, 2018. "Testing equivalence to families of multinomial distributions with application to the independence model," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 61-66.
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