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Power Law Paper

Owen Densmore
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Oops: here's the url.
        http://backspaces.net/files/PowerLaws.pdf

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
> Date: May 26, 2005 2:35:27 PM MDT
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Power Law Paper
>
> Bill McKelvey, who put on the Arrowhead conference some of us just got
> back from, is publishing a review paper on power laws, and how they
> will impact social sciences.  He'd be delighted to get wide review
> from such as ourselves.
>
> From the paper:
>   Conclusion:  No statistical findings should be accepted into
> organization
>   science if they gain significance via some  assumption-device by
> which
>   extreme events and infinite variance are ignored.
>
> -- Owen
>
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