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A power-law is a function that increases proportionally to a power of its argument (ax^b). Often seen in fitted relationships or in densities (power-law distributions).
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What is an "algebraic tail"?
The authors of this paper repeatedly use the term "algebraic tail" when describing some of the distributions they observed:
...the probability of remaining in a small, spatially confined region fo …
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What exactly is a "truncated" power law distribution?
This paper describes the data they analyzed as following a "truncated" power law distribution:
To me, this just looks like they multiplied a power-law distribution ($\Delta r + \Delta r_0)^{-\beta} …
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