# Two samples test for discrete power-law distributions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00643 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.00643/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Mar 2015.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Power-law distributions occur in wide variety of physical, biological, and social phenomena. In this paper, we propose a statistical hypothesis test based on the log-likelihood ratio to assess whether two samples of discrete data are drawn from the same power-law distribution.