The Structural Cause of File Size Distributions

The Structural cause of file size distributions - Allen B Downey, October 2000

http://rocky.wellesley.edu/research/filesize/

The author finds the same thing as me, that file sizes follow a LogNormal distribution. The author proposes the multiplicative generating model I described on the LogNormal page as the mechanism causing the distribution.

What's cool about this paper is that the author actually finds a little bit of evidence for the multiplicative generating mode, by comparing the sizes of old versions of files with the current version.

--NickChapman