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Power laws and Gaussians for stock market fluctuations

✍ Scribed by Çağlar Tuncay; Dietrich Stauffer

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
310 KB
Volume
374
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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