A New Kind of Power Law
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The article "Self-Similar Processes Follow a Power Law in Discrete Logarithmic Space" by Mitchell G. Newberry and Van M. Savage (Biomath, UCLA), was published in Physical Review Letters (122, 158303) – 19 April 2019.
Science writer Morgan Sherburne of the University of Michigan News met with Newberry and discusses his work in "U-M researcher finds a better power law that predicts earthquakes, blood vessels, bank accounts", April 25, University of Michigan News.
Newberry states;
For 100 years, people have been talking about roughly one kind of power law distribution. It’s the power law distribution of wealth and earthquakes. Only now, we’re documenting these discrete scales. Instead of a smooth curve, our power law looks like an infinite staircase.
Congratutions Mitchell!
