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Slight article nitpick: a distribution that 'looks like a straight line' in a log-log plot is often not power-law distributed. One could say that the distribut
by smallnamespace 10y ago
Slight article nitpick: a distribution that 'looks like a straight line' in a log-log plot is often not power-law distributed.
One could say that the distribution has a fat one-sided tail though.
- gary_bernhardt 10y agoI thought about trying to clarify this, but "power law" is the term that's been thrown around to describe this effect in software systems for many years. Really, I only care about the fat-one-sided-ness (for its practical implications); I don't care so much about the precise mathematical formulation.