Head/Tail Breaks: A New Classification Scheme for Data with a Heavy-Tailed Distribution
Head/Tail Breaks: A New Classification Scheme for Data with a Heavy-Tailed Distribution
This article introduces a new classification scheme—head/tail breaks—to find groupings or hierarchy for data with a heavy-tailed distribution. The heavy-tailed distributions are heavily right skewed, with a minority of large values in the head and a majority of small values in the tail, commonly characterized by a power law, a …