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Power-law distributions contain precious information about a large variety of physical processes [10]. Although there are sound theoretical grounds for these distributions, the empirical evidence giving support to power laws has been traditionally weak.
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Deluca, A., Puig, P., Corral, Á. (2014). Testing Universality and Goodness-of-Fit Test of Power-Law Distributions. In: Corral, Á., Deluca, A., Font-Clos, F., Guerrero, P., Korobeinikov, A., Massucci, F. (eds) Extended Abstracts Spring 2013. Trends in Mathematics(), vol 2. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08138-0_3
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