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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2009, Article ID 206176, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2009/206176 Research Article Generalized Probability Functions 1, 2 ´ 1 Alexandre Souto Martinez, Rodrigo Silva Gonzalez, ´ 3 and Cesar Augusto Sangaletti Terc¸ariol 1 Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, ˆ ˜ ˜ Avenida Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040-901 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil ˜ 2 National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3 Centro Universitario Barao de Maua, Rua Ramos de Azevedo, 423, 14090-180 Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil ´ ˜ ´ ˜ Correspondence should be addressed to Alexandre Souto Martinez, asmartinez@usp.br Received 12 June 2009; Revised 17 September 2009; Accepted 8 October 2009 Recommended by Giorgio Kaniadakis From the integration of nonsymmetrical hyperboles, a one-parameter generalization of the logarithmic function is obtained. Inverting this function, one obtains the generalized exponential function. Motivated by the mathematical curiosity, we show that these generalized functions are suitable to generalize some probability density functions pdfs. A very reliable rank distribution can be conveniently described by the generalized exponential function. Finally, we turn the attention to t