THE BEST AND THE REST: REVISITING THE NORM OF NORMALITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x/full
An alternative to either the Gaussian distribution (bell curve) or the power law?
A Question of Balance? Nonlinear Complex Phenomena in Biology and Physics
http://www.bio-balance.com/A_Question_of_Balance.htm
Lévy distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution
Inverse-gamma distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-gamma_distribution
Gamma distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution
Conjugate prior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_prior
Exponential family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_family
Dirichlet distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution