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Power law?

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What is the independent variable in the variance-to-mean power law? Without knowing what is being varied, it's hard to make sense of it. Is it a mean parameter of the distribution? Is there always just one obvious parameter to vary? Dicklyon (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 31 July 2025

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Tweedie distributionTweedie–Bar-Lev–Enis distribution – Several reliable sources describe this family as independently and rigorously characterized by M. C. K. Tweedie (1984) and by Shaul K. Bar-Lev & Peter Enis (1986), and recent literature adopts the triple eponym. The current single-eponym title reflects later secondary usage and obscures the dual/independent characterization. Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONSISTENCY (distribution pages use the singular), the title should be Tweedie–Bar-Lev–Enis distribution. Sources: Tweedie 1984; Bar-Lev & Enis 1983, 1986; Brown 1986 (cites the 1983 TR); Jørgensen 1987; Bar-Lev 2019; Cohen & Huillet 2022; Kokonendji et al. 2020; Truquet, Cohen & Doukhan 2024. Stochastics101 (talk) 21:18, 31 July 2025 (UTC) ~~~~[reply]

Stochastics101 (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:38, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Leaning opposed: The nominator also made a closely related major edit of the article a few days ago to. That and this renaming proposal are the only edits ever made by the nominating account. I strongly suspect some agenda is being pushed here. The "misnamed" remark inserted into the article seems particularly heavy-handed. It is not "misnaming" to refer to something using the name of the first person who published a substantial discussion of the subject, and Tweedie appears to have been first, if I understand correctly. Even using a name with a murkier justification than that is not necessarily "misnaming". It seems obvious that most of the sources being cited by the nominator do not refer to the "Tweedie–Bar-Lev–Enis distribution", and I suspect some cherry-picking as well. It seems clear that none of the pre-2019 sources described by the nominator use the term "Tweedie–Bar-Lev–Enis distribution". The 2019 source appears to be primarily an advocacy article complaining about the naming that was written by one of the people proposed to be added to the list of credits, and thus it is not an independent reliable source. The Kokonendji 2020 source is paywalled, so I don't know what it says, and it has only two independent citations in Google Scholar, so it does not appear especially influential (although low citations might be expected for such a recent article). One of those two citations is from one of the people proposed to be added to the list of credits in the name. No clear citation was provided by the nominator for "Truquet, Cohen & Doukhan 2024", and that one is not cited in the Wikipedia article. I found an ArXiv paper that fits that description. It does not contain the term "Tweedie–Bar-Lev–Enis distribution". Not that this is necessarily conclusive on the subject, but the Tweedie 1984 paper is cited about 7× as much in Google Scholar as the most-cited of the Bar-Lev–Enis articles. The Jørgensen 1987 article and the Tweedie 1984 article are relatively highly cited, with about 1,000 citations each in Google Scholar. As stated in the Wikipedia article, it appears that the Jørgensen 1987 article calls this the "Tweedie distribution". I do not find a record of a "Bar-Lev & Enis 1983" publication. It seems unlikely that the 1985 Bar-Lev & Enis Metrika paper contains much that is especially influential, as that paper has only one citation in Google Scholar that wasn't written by Bar-Lev (and that referencing publication is incompletely described). —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:38, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]