On fitting power laws to ecological data

Details On fitting power laws to ecological data On fitting power laws to ecological data

2007-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0712.0613v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

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Heavy-tailed or power-law distributions are becoming increasingly common in biological literature. A wide range of biological data has been fitted to distributions with heavy tails. Many of these studies use simple fitting methods to find the parameters in the distribution, which can give highly misleading results. The potential pitfalls that can occur when using these methods are pointed out, and a step-by-step guide to fitting power-law distributions and assessing their goodness-of-fit is offered.

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