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A case study against Haitun's conjectures

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Haitun's conjectures about specific properties of information distributions are questioned. It is shown on linguistic material that the opening of a closed counting scale changes the skewness of distribution in a way which contradictsHaitun's suggestions. Negative power distributions are time dependent and can be explained as density measures of fractal clusters and are not specific to the social sciences.

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Kunz, M. A case study against Haitun's conjectures. Scientometrics 13, 25–33 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02095760

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