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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks

• mcguire 6y ago
  "A paper posted online last month has reignited a debate about one of the oldest, most startling claims in the modern era of network science: the proposition that most complex networks in the real world — from the World Wide Web to interacting proteins in a cell — are “scale-free.” Roughly speaking, that means that a few of their nodes should have many more connections than others, following a mathematical formula called a power law, so that there’s no one scale that characterizes the network."
• wrp 6y ago
  Work disputing the claims about scale-free networks has been out for many years.[1,2,3,4,5] [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427951.2005.10129111 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427951.2005.10... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16706727/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16706727/ [3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16163729/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16163729/ [4] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11599128_5 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11599128_5 [5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20023717/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20023717/