Comment on “A statistical evidence of power law distribution in the upper tail of world billionaires’ data 2010–20” [Physica A 581 (2021) 126198]

Composite distributions in the social sciences: A comparative empirical study of firms' sales distribution for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain

“…Thus we do not obtain a clear parsimony in this case with the number of the parameters, as there is an ample selection of five-component mixture distributions. This may be caused by the difficulty of modelling the upper tail of the distributions, even after having removed the top 0.1% of the observations, in line with Ramos (2022) and references therein. Table 10: Summary of the results of the selection of the distributions for the doubly truncated data sets and distributions by information criteria AIC, BIC, HQC.…”