Talk:Heavy-tailed distribution
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[edit] Proposal: merge Heavy-tailed distribution with Power Law
I propose to redirect the Heavy-tailed distribution article name to the power law article (note that the editors of the power laws article are in the process of producing a dramatically better version that is currently public). The new power-laws article covers both power-law functions and power-law distributions (including distributions with power-law tails), and so information on Heavh-tailed distribution would naturally fit as as a subsection of that topic. In fact, it would be nice to have a section there on the relationship between power-tail tails and extreme value theory.Paresnah 20:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- If the Cauchy distribution is heavy tailed, then I don't see that there needs to be a Power Law merger (the power law article doesn't deal with two tails). (forgot to sign) --Henrygb 22:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Comments from before 13 March 2007
This material was originally taken from the long-range dependency article, which conflated long-range dependent processes and the heavy-tailed distributions that can arise from them as if they were the same thing. -- The Anome 23:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
