The nonextensivity parameter q occurring in some of the applications of Tsallis statistics (known also as index of the corresponding Levy distribution) is shown to be given, in the q>1 case, entirely by the fluctuations of the parameters of the usual exponential distribution.
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Wilk et al. (2000) studied this question.
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