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Taylor's power law is one of the mostly widely known empirical patterns in ecology discovered in the 20th century. It states that the variance of species population density scales as a power-law function of the mean population density.…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Meng Xu

Taylor's law, also known as fluctuation scaling in physics and the power-law variance function in statistics, is an empirical pattern widely observed across fields including ecology, physics, finance, and epidemiology. It states that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Pok Him Cheng , Joel E. Cohen , Hok Kan Ling , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Taylor's power law (or fluctuation scaling) states that on comparable populations, the variance of each sample is approximately proportional to a power of the mean of the population. It has been shown to hold by empirical observations in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Victor De la Pena , Paul Doukhan , Yahia Salhi

Many natural patterns, such as the distributions of blood particles in a blood sample, proteins on cell surfaces, biological populations in their habitat, galaxies in the universe, the sequence of human genes, and the fitness in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Zhanshan Sam Ma

In a family of random variables, Taylor's law or Taylor's power law offluctuation scaling is a variance function that gives the variance $\sigma^{2}>0$ of a random variable (rv) $X$ with expectation $\mu >0$ as a powerof $\mu$: $\sigma…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Joel E. Cohen , Thierry E Huillet

Taylor's law describes the fluctuation characteristics underlying a system in which the variance of an event within a time span grows by a power law with respect to the mean. Although Taylor's law has been applied in many natural and social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Tatsuru Kobayashi , Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Taylors Law (TL) describes the scaling relationship between the mean and variance of populations as a power-law. TL is widely observed in ecological systems across space and time with exponents varying largely between 1 and 2. Many…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-24 Xiao Xiao , Kenneth J. Locey , Ethan P. White

Taylor's power law (TL) or fluctuation scaling has been verified empirically for the abundances of many species, human and non-human, and in many other fields including physics, meteorology, computer science, and finance. TL asserts that…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-30 Lionel Truquet , Joel E. Cohen , Paul Doukhan

First discovered by L. R. Taylor (1961, Nature), Taylor's Power Law (TPL) correlates the mean (M) population abundances and the corresponding variances (V) across a set of insect populations using a power function (V=aM^b). TPL has…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-25 Zhanshan Sam Ma , R. A. J. Taylor

Taylor's law (TL) states that the variance $V$ of a non-negative random variable is a power function of its mean $M$, i.e. $V=a M^b$. The ubiquitous empirical verification of TL, typically displaying sample exponents $b \simeq 2$, suggests…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Andrea Giometto , Marco Formentin , Andrea Rinaldo , Joel E. Cohen , Amos Maritan

In this article, we study transportation network in Minnesota. We show that the system is characterized by Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling with nontrivial values of the scaling exponent. We also show that the characteristic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-21 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak , Maksymilian Bujok

Consensus about the universality of the power law feature in complex networks is experiencing profound challenges. To shine fresh light on this controversy, we propose a generic theoretical framework in order to examine the power law…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Xiaojun Zhang , Zheng He , Liwei Zhang , Lez Rayman-Bacchus , Yue Xiao , Shuhui Shen

Several populational networks present complex topologies when implemented in evolutionary algorithms. A common feature of these topologies is the emergence of a power law. Power law behavior with different scaling factors can also be…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-08 Francisco Leonardo Bezerra Martins , José Cláudio do Nascimento

For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws, but often show strong deviationns from such a law. Previously, these deviations were attributed to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Johan Chu , Chris Adami

Taylor's fluctuation scaling (FS) has been observed in many natural and man-made systems revealing an amazing universality of the law. Here we give strong theoretical foundations for the origins and abundance of Taylor's FS in different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak

Taylor's Law (TL) relates the variance to the mean of a random variable via power law. In ecology it applies to populationsand it is a common empirical pattern shared among different ecosystems. Measurements give power law exponent to be…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-26 Stefano Garlaschi , Samuele Stivanello

A power law degree distribution is established for a graph evolution model based on the graph class of k-trees. This k-tree-based graph process can be viewed as an idealized model that captures some characteristics of the preferential…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Yong Gao

In the present work, via computational simulation we study the statistical distribution of people versus number of steps acquired by them in a learning process, considering Darwin classical theory of evolution, i.e. competition, learning…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hari Mohan Gupta , José Roberto Campanha

Recently several authors have proposed stochastic evolutionary models for the growth of complex networks that give rise to power-law distributions. These models are based on the notion of preferential attachment leading to the ``rich get…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou

Interpretation of empirical results based on a taxa's lifetime distribution shows apparently conflicting results. Species' lifetime is reported to be exponentially distributed, whereas higher order taxa, such as families or genera, follow a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 S. Pigolotti , A. Flammini , M. Marsili , A. Maritan
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