2 papers
stat.ME2024
Why you should also use OLS estimation of tail exponents
Thiago Trafane Oliveira Santos, Daniel Oliveira Cajueiro
Even though practitioners often estimate Pareto exponents running OLS rank-size regressions, the usual recommendation is to use the Hill MLE with a small-sample correction instead,…
stat.AP2024
Zipf's law in the distribution of Brazilian firm size
Thiago Trafane Oliveira Santos, Daniel Oliveira Cajueiro
Zipf's law states that the probability of a variable being larger than is roughly inversely proportional to . In this paper, we evaluate Zipf's law for the distribution of f…