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A distribution is a mathematical description of probabilities or frequencies.
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What is an "algebraic tail"?
The authors of this paper repeatedly use the term "algebraic tail" when describing some of the distributions they observed:
...the probability of remaining in a small, spatially confined region for … and
Despite systematic deviations for short distances, all distributions show an algebraic tail with the same exponent $\beta \approx 0.6$, which confirms that the observed power-law is an intrinsic …
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What exactly is a "truncated" power law distribution?
Is this related to the so-called "piecewise power law" distributions?
M.C. González et al., Understanding individual human mobility patterns, Nature 453, 779 (2008). …