power-law distribution
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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Accordingly, pointing out thepower-lawdistributionof language family sizes might be argued not to constitute a significant scientific step forward.
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Rank-ordering of avalanche sizes will produce apower-lawdistribution.
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On thepower-lawdistributionof language family sizes.
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Populations of nearly stable population size generated bypower-lawdistributionfunctions are compared to those that were generated by using exponential bounded distributions.
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Essentially, apower-lawdistributionis arrived at by an iteration of the initial branching process.
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If thepower-lawdistributionis the normal, expected kind of distribution, then the picture we see is one of imbalance.
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Apower-lawdistributiontends to be dominated by the average size of the particles.
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Much recent theoretical work has been motivated by measurements of real-world networks, indicating that they have certain 'scale-free' properties, such as apower-lawdistributionof degrees.
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Distributions typically followed include thepower-lawdistribution, that of a stretched exponential, or a parabolic fractal.
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This distribution is a common alternative to the asymptoticpower-lawdistributionbecause it naturally captures finite-size effects.
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If the resultant scatterplot suggests that the plotted points tend to stabilize about a horizontal straight line, then apower-lawdistributionshould be suspected.
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If the resultant scatterplot suggests that the plotted points asymptotically converge to a straight line, then apower-lawdistributionshould be suspected.
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