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> Power law indicates an exponential distribution This sounds wrong. One is invariant under scaling, the other under translation.
by alimw 9y ago
> Power law indicates an exponential distribution
This sounds wrong. One is invariant under scaling, the other under translation.
- srean 9y ago> This sounds wrong. It is. However there is a way to make it correct. Your second sentence is spot on the intuition. If you log transform power-law distributed random variable the RV that you get is an exponentially distributed RV.