[R] packages for power law distribution

[Thomas Lumley]

There's code at http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/powerlaws/

   -thomas

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, fernando del bon
<fernandodelbon at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> I will appreciate some
> suggestions of R packages for "ESTIMATION OF THE EXPONENT OF
> POWER-LAW FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS".  I have been searching at
> the R-help list several keywords for this subject and I did not find
> a very specific package, except the useful normalp package.  I
> believe there are others but I was not able to identify it.  I have
> interest in the exponent of power-law distribution of some events
> (only frequency) and "not" bivariate relationships between
> two variable.  Specifically I am looking for packages that has
> functions of "pareto, truncate pareto, discrete pareto and power
> law function" with maximum likelihood estimation.  What would be
> the suggestions for that?
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> Thanks a lot for your
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> Sincerely,
> Fernando
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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland