Is this scaling nonlinear?

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Leitao J C ^a   Miotto, J M ^a   Gerlach, M ^a   Altmann, E G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometry; Scaling laws; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978427255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150649     Document Type: Article

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