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physics.data-an2009★ 1 cited
A shift-optimized Hill-type estimator
Éva Rácz, János Kertész, Zoltán Eisler
A wide range of natural and social phenomena result in observables whose distributions can be well approximated by a power-law decay. The well-known Hill estimator of the tail expo…
cond-mat.dis-nn2006★ 54 cited
Failure and avalanches in complex networks
Jan Øystein Haavig Bakke, Alex Hansen, János Kertész
We study the size distribution of power blackouts for the Norwegian and North American power grids. We find that for both systems the size distribution follows power laws with expo…