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Interpretation of the nonextensitivity parameter q in some applications of Tsallis statistics and Lévy distributions

G. Wilk, Z. Wlodarczyk

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9908459

Abstract

The nonextensitivity parameter q occuring in some of the applications of Tsallis statistics (known also as index of the corresponding Lévy distribution) is shown to be given, in q>1 case, entirely by the fluctuations of the parameters of the usual exponential distribution.

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