Discriminating between Light- and Heavy-Tailed Distributions with Limit Theorem.

In this paper we propose an algorithm to distinguish between light- and heavy-tailed probability laws underlying random datasets. The idea of the algorithm, which is visual and easy to implement, is to check whether the underlying law belongs to the domain of attraction of the Gaussian or non-Gaussi...

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Main Authors: Krzysztof Burnecki, Agnieszka Wylomanska, Aleksei Chechkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4689533?pdf=render