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Long tail logo #21000 In statistics, a long tail of some distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having a large number of occurrences far from the `head` or central part of the distribution. The distribution could involve popularities, random numbers of occurrences of events with various probabilities, etc. A probability distribution is said to ha.....
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long tail logo #21003(from the article `media convergence`) More recently, media distribution models have been challenged by the concept of the `long tail,` or the idea that there are actually more total ...
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Long tail logo #21740The effect of publishing content online and keeping it available in an archive. Unlike in a newspaper, old stories will continue to receive traffic long after publication date, hence the long tail.
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