long tails
Trailing rear extremities
Long tails refers to the elongated posterior appendages of animals, or to anything that trails or extends behind: The kite's long tails streamed in the wind.
In statistics and economics, a long tail describes a distribution where many small sellers or niche products collectively rival the few bestsellers—the opposite of a hit-driven market: The internet economy thrives on long tails.
- tail riskUnlikely extreme outcome probability
- rare eventsInfrequent happenings
- niche marketsSmall specialized commercial segments
- lemurMadagascan arboreal primate
- demand curveGraph of price versus quantity
statistics · power law · distribution curve · probability distribution · sales · outliers · extended · persistent · market segmentation · economics · streaming platforms · subscription models · elongated · microgenres · user-generated content · prehensile tail · arboreal · trailing
- tail distributionstail risk, power law, extreme events
long tailsnormal distribution
Bell-shaped probability curve
bell curve · mainstream · blockbusters · hits · mass market