Why do power laws exist? I have an intuitive understanding of how bell curves fall out of accumulated random events. -Similarly, is there a simple principle causing power laws to appear everywhere? -How can we predict that something will follow a power law distribution?
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Thanks! Whoops, my bad. I misinterpreted the first sentence as something completely different. Didn't know Per Bak was the full name.
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Dated and a bit controversial now, but classic.
The field basically stagnated after the networks research of ~2000 (Barabasi book is key ref there)
Finding power laws was a cottage industry through 90s. Then there was a backlash