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On M. Kunz's article “A case study against Haitun's conjectures”

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M.Kunz's criticism of the concept of non-Gaussian nature of scientific activities is discussed. The following points of the concept are analyzed: transformations of closed scales into open scales, the dependence of moments of non-Gaussian distributions on the samples size, the non-Gaussian nature of Man-dwelt upon byKunz. Arguments based on statistical analysis of Kunz's article are put forward againstKunz.

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  1. Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Staropansky per., 1/5, 103012, Moscow, (USSR)

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Haitun, S.D. On M. Kunz's article “A case study against Haitun's conjectures”. Scientometrics 13, 35–44 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02095761

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