Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed?
by antognini on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:09AM
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That's if you require the range to be [0, infinity). If you don't require 0 to be a valid point in the distribution then a power law is the maximum entropy distribution. A power law just diverges if you try to integrate to zero, so you have to find a lower entropy distribution.
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