Old tails: a crude power law fit on ebook sales

Win-Vector Blog 2014-04-18

Summary:

We use R to take a very brief look at the distribution of e-book sales on Amazon.com. Recently Hugh Howey shared some eBook sales data spidered from Amazon.com: The 50k Report. The data is largely a single scrape of statistics about various anonymized books. Howey’s analysis tries to break sales down by declared category and […]

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opinion statistics amazon.com books ebooks econometrics heavy tails power law distribution r

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

04/18/2014, 22:50

Date published:

04/18/2014, 15:28