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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 law (TL), the scaling relationship between the mean and variance, has been observed in various fields. However, the underlying reasons why TL is so widely observed, why the exponents of TL are often close to 2, and the relationship…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-29 Yuzuru Mitsui , Hiroshi Kori

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 (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

Turbulence is a complex spatial and temporal structure created by the strong non-linear dynamics of fluid flows at high Reynolds numbers. Despite being an ubiquitous phenomenon that has been studied for centuries, a full understanding of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-03 Noam Levi , Yaron Oz

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

A new method is developed for the study of transport properties of 1D models with random potentials. It is based on an exact transformation that reduces discrete Schr\"odinger equation in the tight-binding model to a two-dimensional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Dossetti-Romero , F. M. Izrailev , A. A. Krokhin

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

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 (TL), a power-law relationship between the mean and variance of a quantity, has been observed across diverse scientific disciplines. Despite its ubiquity, the underlying mechanisms responsible for TL are not yet fully…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-14 Yuzuru Mitsui , Hiroshi Kori

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

The definitions of temporal instability and of spatial instability in a flow system are comparatively surveyed. The simple model of one-dimensional Burgers' flow is taken as the scenario where such different conceptions of instability are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-04 Antonio Barletta

We present a phenomenological theory for spatiotemporal chaos (STC) in Rayleigh-Benard convection, based on the generalized Swift-Hohenberg model. We apply a random phase approximation to STC and conjecture a scaling form for the structure…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 Xiao-jun Li , Hao-wen Xi , J. D. Gunton

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

The Central Limit Theorem states that, in the limit of a large number of terms, an appropriately scaled sum of independent random variables yields another random variable whose probability distribution tends to a stable distribution. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-04-08 Damián H. Zanette , Inés Samengo

We show how a recently introduced statistics [Patil et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 5878 (2001)] provides a direct relationship between dimension and predictability in spatiotemporal chaotic systems. Regions of low dimension are identified as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerson Francisco , Paulsamy Muruganandam

We analyze the transport properties of a set of symmetry-breaking extensions %, both spatial and temporal, of the Chirikov--Taylor Map. The spatial and temporal asymmetries result in the loss of periodicity in momentum direction in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-28 Taksu Cheon , Pavel Exner , Petr Seba

We apply Tsallis's q-indexed nonextensive entropy to formulate a random matrix theory (RMT), which may be suitable for systems with mixed regular-chaotic dynamics. We consider the super-extensive regime of q < 1. We obtain analytical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 A. Abd El-Hady , A. Y. Abul-Magd

Uncovering the mechanism leading to the scaling law in human trajectories is of fundamental importance in understanding many spatiotemporal phenomena. We propose a hierarchical geographical model to mimic the real traffic system, upon which…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiaopu Han , Qiang Hao , Binghong Wang , Tao Zhou

Empirical studies on the spatial structures in several real transport networks reveal that the distance distribution in these networks obeys power law. To discuss the influence of the power-law exponent on the network's structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Hua Yang , Yuchao Nie , Ying Fan , Yanqing Hu , Zengru Di
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