Note
Power law distributions have a well defined mean only if the exponent exceeds 1 and have a finite variance only when the exponent exceeds two. To apply the central limit theorem (and related statistics) to a power law distributed variable it is first necessary to ensure that the distribution has an exponent that exceeds 2.
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