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The 17 pages that link to Power law, each with the reason it gives.

• Exponential growthCompared with: Power-law scaling can resemble exponential growth over a narrow range but has a different mathematical form.

• Venture capitalRelated: A few exceptional investments can produce much of a venture fund’s total return.

• Exponential decayCompared with: Power-law decreases often have heavier tails than exponential decay.

• Gravity modelRelated: A common gravity-model impedance function makes interaction decline as a power of distance.

• Black swan theoryRelated: Heavy-tailed distributions allow rare events to have consequences far beyond ordinary fluctuations.

• Gamma correctionRelated: A power law is the common mathematical form of gamma encoding and decoding.

• Scale invarianceRelated: Power laws often express scale-invariant behavior across a range of magnitudes.

• Scaling lawNarrower topic: Many observed scaling curves are approximated by power laws over practical ranges.

• Benoit MandelbrotRelated: Mandelbrot’s work highlighted power-law scaling in natural forms and financial fluctuations.

• Metcalfe's lawRelated: Metcalfe's law is a specific quadratic scaling claim.

• Pareto principleRelated: Heavy-tailed power-law distributions can produce a small number of outsized contributions.

• Self-organized criticalityRelated: Avalanche sizes in proposed critical systems often follow power-law distributions.

• Bradford's lawCompared with: Bradford distributions are sometimes modeled with power-law-like curves, but the concepts are not interchangeable.

• Lotka's lawRelated: Lotka's inverse-square form is a power law with exponent negative two.

• Fractal analysisRelated: Power-law slopes reveal scale dependence in many fractal measurements.

• Fractal dimension characterizationRelated: Dimension estimates often come from the exponent of a power-law scaling relation.

• Heaps's lawRelated: The law’s defining curve is a power-law relationship.