Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law Many of the things that scientists measure have a typical size or “scale”—a typical value around which individual measurements are centred. A simple example would

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Date: 2006-03-22 12:42:02		Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law Many of the things that scientists measure have a typical size or “scale”—a typical value around which individual measurements are centred. A simple example would Add to Reading List Source URL: www-personal.umich.edu Download Document from Source Website File Size: 1,33 MB Share Document on Facebook