• DOI:10.1137/070710111
Corpus ID: 9155618

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

@article{Clauset2009PowerLawDI,
  title={Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data},
  author={A. Clauset and C. Shalizi and M. Newman},
  journal={SIAM Rev.},
  year={2009},
  volume={51},
  pages={661-703}
}

A. Clauset, C. Shalizi, M. Newman

Published 2009

Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

SIAM Rev.

Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the detection and characterization of power laws is complicated by the large fluctuations that occur in the tail of the distribution—the part of the distribution representing large but rare events—and by the difficulty of identifying the range over which power-law behavior holds. Commonly used methods for analyzing… CONTINUE READING

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