Is this scaling nonlinear?

One of the most celebrated findings in complex systems in the last decade is that different indexes y (e.g. patents) scale nonlinearly with the population x of the cities in which they appear, i.e. y∼xβ,β≠1. More recently, the generality of this finding has been questioned in studies that used new d...

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Main Authors: J. C. Leitão, J. M. Miotto, M. Gerlach, E. G. Altmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2016-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.150649