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Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit
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Gábor Csárdi |
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Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:32:26 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tamas Nepusz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Which is quite surprising, because there is no exact formula for
>> discrete data AFAIK.
> Correction: no, they don't calculate alpha directly, they just simply
> try every possible alpha with some granularity in a given range,
> calculate the likelihood, and then choose the alpha which yields the
> maximal likelihood.
Well, then this is an optimization algorithm after all, a quite rude one. :)
Gabor
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Gabor Csardi <address@hidden> UNIL DGM
- [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Martin Tomko, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Tamas Nepusz, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Martin Tomko, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Tamas Nepusz, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Gábor Csárdi, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Tamas Nepusz, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit,
Gábor Csárdi <=
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Martin Tomko, 2010/11/16
- Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Gábor Csárdi, 2010/11/16
Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Gábor Csárdi, 2010/11/16
Re: [igraph] errors using power.law.fit, Gábor Csárdi, 2010/11/16