From gene families and genera to incomes and internet file sizes: Why power laws are so common in nature

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 4-

  Reed, William J ^a   Hughes, Barry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTERNET; OSCILLATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS (CDF); FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS; GEOMETRIC BROWNIAN MOTION (GBM); LOG-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE;

EID: 33748756571     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.067103     Document Type: Article

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