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Originally Posted by Kosh
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The loot is certainly exponential or if rounded to be discrete, poisson with a small peak at the beginning of the scale. But I feel that by smoothing the function you miss the true distribution here, which is discrete that skips certain ranges altogether.
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I found this one here that would be usefully when trying to model single loot values:
Mix Exp Poisson
With this approach every loot value is regarded as a single species independent form all other species. The frequency of one loot value is modeled as an poisson random variable with mean m. The means mi of the different loot values are then modeled by an exponential or mixture of exp distributions. They do the mixture only to achieve a better fit. So there is no interpretation given.
I'm not sure if this approach fits our situation, but for those that like discrete distributions this might be an interesting idea.