On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 905-912

  White, Ethan P ^a,b   Enquist, Brian J ^b   Green, Jessica L ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Binning; Distribution; Exponent; Maximum likelihood estimation; Power laws

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PRECISION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 42949085864     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1288.1     Document Type: Article

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