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Maximum likelihood estimator for Power-law with Exponential cutoff

Hi, for fitting empirical data to power-law I am aware of the work by Clauset et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062) and how to use maximum likelihood estimation. There exists also a simple maximum ...
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Maximum likelihood estimator for power law with negative exponent

Background I have data that roughly follows a power law with a negative exponent (up to a point; also, the parameters of the "fit" were just guesstimated by eye as a demonstration): Now I ...
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