Law of error in Tsallis statistics

In order to theoretically explain the ubiquitous existence of power-law behavior such as chaos and fractals in nature, Tsallis entropy has been successfully applied to the generalization of the traditional Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics, the fundamental information measure of which is Shannon entropy. Tsallis entropy S_q is a one-parameter generalization of Shannon entropy S₁ in the sense that lim_q→1S_q=S₁. The generalized statistics using Tsallis entropy are referred to as Tsallis statistics. In order to present the law of error in Tsallis statistics as a generalization of Gauss´ law of error and prove it mathematically, we apply the new multiplication operation determined by q-logarithm and q-exponential, the fundamental functions in Tsallis statistics, to the definition of the likelihood function in Gauss´ law of error. The present maximum-likelihood principle (MLP) leads us to determine the so-called q-Gaussian distribution, which coincides with one of the Tsallis distributions derived from the maximum entropy principle for Tsallis entropy under the second moment constraint.