Power-law size distributions
The Statistics of Surprise.
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Covered in these episode(s) and clip(s):
Episode 1: The Statistics of Surprise: Nobody expects the power law size distributions (1:30:45)
Clip 1: Estimating wealth distributions (4:12)
Clip 2: Not being homo probablisticus (6:38)
Clip 3: Girl born on a Tuesday (5:53)
Clip 4: More on wealth distributions (6:12)
Clip 5: Power-law size distributions (18:36)
Clip 6: A shock of power law size distributions (15:10)
Clip 7: Power laws: Lack of scale (6:12)
Clip 8: Mean, moments, variance (5:21)
Clip 9: Maximum sample scaling (3:21)
Clip 10: Complementary Cumulative Distribution Functions (CCDFs) (4:24)
Clip 11: Boggoracle: Zipf's Law with bonus vice cream recipe (1:10)
Clip 12: Zipf's Law and CCDFs (9:13)
Clip 13: Zipf's law in chess (1:50)