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alimw on July 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn't everything normally distributed?

> Power law indicates an exponential distribution

This sounds wrong. One is invariant under scaling, the other under translation.

srean on July 21, 2017 [–]

> This sounds wrong.

It is.

However there is a way to make it correct. Your second sentence is spot on the intuition. If you log transform power-law distributed random variable the RV that you get is an exponentially distributed RV.

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