Providing insight into a field of study that is now gaining global importance, this comprehensive treatment of statistical size distributions: * Describes in-full more than 25 models * Covers Lorenz curves, multimodal, and multivariate distributions * Pays specific attention to Italian, and to some degree Japanese sources * Emphasizes interrelations among various families * Accounts for more than 200 personal papers, theses, and technical reports by the authors, representing over 40 combined years of study and research * Opens a formerly European field to the global marketweiterlesen