Powerlaw: a Python package for analysis of heavy-tailed distributions.

Power laws are theoretically interesting probability distributions that are also frequently used to describe empirical data. In recent years, effective statistical methods for fitting power laws have been developed, but appropriate use of these techniques requires significant programming and statist...

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Main Authors: Jeff Alstott, Ed Bullmore, Dietmar Plenz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906378?pdf=render