| Abstract Size-frequency and rank-frequency relations, power laws and exponential relations: a unified approach (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| Power laws, such as Zipf s law, and exponential relations, leading to straight lines in logarithmic or semi-logarithmic scales, are presented in a unified setting. It is shown that the class of size-frequency power laws is larger than the class of rank-frequency power laws. Their ubiquity in all fields of science is illustrated. Keywords: power laws, Lotka's law, Zipf s law, exponentials, unification Proposed running title: power laws and exponential relations | |||||||||||||
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