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  • The Long Tail
    The Long Tail
    "The Long Tail" is a concept put forth by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article which described the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities...

    , a consumer demographic in business
  • Power law
    Power law
    A power law is a special kind of mathematical relationship between two quantities. If one quantity is the frequency of an event, and the other is the size of the event, then the relationship has a power-law distribution when the frequency of the event decreases at a greater rate than the size...

    's long tail, a statistics term describing certain kinds of distribution
  • Long-tail boat
    Long-tail boat
    The long-tail boat is a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia, which uses a common automotive engine as a readily available and maintainable powerplant. A craft designed to carry passengers on a river may include a lightweight long canoe hull, up to 30 meters, and a canopy...

    , a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia
  • Long-tail distribution, a probability distribution is one that assigns relatively high probabilities to regions far from the mean or median.
  • Long-tail traffic
    Long-tail traffic
    This article covers a range of tools from different disciplines that may be used in the important science of determining the probability of rare events....

    , telecommunication traffic that exhibits a Long-tail distribution