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Yeah that's a power law. It would have been pretty easy to see had you used a log-log plot.
by contravariant 9y ago
Yeah that's a power law. It would have been pretty easy to see had you used a log-log plot.
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- gnarbarian 9y agoThanks for the tip! That looks much better.
- EtDybNuvCu 9y agoThis is literally what the article is arguing against doing.
- gnarbarian 9y agoWell you're right, but that doesn't change the r^2 value or the curve function. Not trying to do science here.
- contravariant 9y agoThey're cautioning against drawing statistical conclusions from it. That doesn't mean the log-log plot isn't more useful than the linear plot. Also they seem to be talking about a power law distribution, whereas here we're talking about the dependence of two variables. As a first step plotting them on a log-log plot and saying 'yeah, looks straight' is fine. Among other things this tells us the dependence is suspiciously close to a cubic root law, which could possibly be justified using dimensional analysis.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoMar's Law: "Everything is linear [power law] if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker".