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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

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 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

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 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

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

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

Zipf's law states that the frequency of an observation with a given value is inversely proportional to the square of that value; Taylor's law, instead, describes the scaling between fluctuations in the size of a population and its mean.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-26 Charlotte James , Sandro Azaele , Amos Maritan , Filippo Simini

We study the statistics of the amplitude of the synchronization error in chaotic electronic circuits coupled through linear feedback. Depending on the coupling strength, our system exhibits three qualitatively different regimes of…

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

Taylor's law quantifies the scaling properties of the fluctuations of the number of innovations occurring in open systems. Urn based modelling schemes have already proven to be effective in modelling this complex behaviour. Here, we present…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-07 F. Tria , I. Crimaldi , G. Aletti , V. D. P. Servedio

By using low-dimensional chaos maps, the power law relationship established between the sample mean and variance called Taylor's Law (TL) is studied. In particular, we aim to clarify the relationship between TL from the spatial ensemble…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-17 Hiroki Kojima , Yuzuru Mitsui , Takashi Ikegami

Complex systems consist of many interacting elements which participate in some dynamical process. The activity of various elements is often different and the fluctuation in the activity of an element grows monotonically with the average…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Zoltan Eisler , Imre Bartos , Janos Kertesz

The paper that is commented by Touchette contains a computational study which opens the door to a desirable generalization of the standard large deviation theory (applicable to a set of $N$ nearly independent random variables) to systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guiomar Ruiz , Constantino Tsallis

We explore the phenomenon of emergent Lorentz invariance in strongly coupled theories. The strong dynamics is handled using the gauge/gravity correspondence. We analyze how the renormalization group flow towards Lorentz invariance is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Grigory Bednik , Oriol Pujolas , Sergey Sibiryakov

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

This article deals with the study of electromagnetic waves equations and the Lorentz condition, as emergent properties of Maxwell's system in the context of systems theory. To do this, the wave equations and the Helmholtz equation are first…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yudier Peña Pérez , Juan Bory Reyes

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

It is well known that the Lorenz system has $Z_2$-symmetry. Using introducted in math.DS/0105147 topological covering-coloring a new representation for the Lorenz system is obtained. Deleting coloring leads to the factorized Lorenz system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Kunin , A. Runov

Power laws have been found to describe a wide variety of natural (physical, biological, astronomic, meteorological, geological) and man-made (social, financial, computational) phenomena over a wide range of magnitudes, although their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sam Ma
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