Power law
In physics, a power law relationship between two scalar quantities x and y is any such that the relationship can be written as
- y = axk
where a (the constant of proportionality) and k (the exponent of the power law) are constants.
Examples of power law relationships:
Examples of power law probability distributions:
Power laws are among the most frequent scaling laws that describe the scaling invariance found in many natural phenomena.
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