Power laws in software

Power laws in software

A single statistical framework, comprising power law distributions and scale-free networks, seems to fit a wide variety of phenomena. There is evidence that power laws appear in software at the class and function level. We show that distributions with long, fat tails in software are much more pervas...

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Veröffentlicht in:ACM transactions on software engineering and methodology 2008-09, Vol.18 (1), p.1-26
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