Goldstein, M.; Morris, S.; Yen, G. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 41 (2004) 2, pp. 255-258
This short communication uses a simple experiment to show that fitting to a power law distribution by using graphical methods based on linear fit on the log-log scale is biased and inaccurate. It shows that using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is far more robust. Finally, it presents a new...