The log-normal distribution is not an appropriate parametric model for shot length distributions of Hollywood films.

We examine the assertion that the two-parameter log-normal distribution is an appropriate parametric model for the shot length distributions of Hollywood films. A review of the claims made in favour of assuming log-normality for shot length distributions finds them to be lacking in methodological de...

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Published in:	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities pp. 137 - 152
Main Author:	Redfern, Nick
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA 04/01/2015
Subjects:	Linguistic analysis Lognormal distribution Distribution (Probability theory) Short films Motion pictures
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