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Friday, May 4, 2012

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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