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It wasn't me.  Must have been someone else.

I think you probably don't mean degree.  You probably mean the degree 
exponent.  But if you have an exponent as large as 7, then it's unlikely 
you have a power law.  Power laws with exponents that large are, in 
practice, very hard to tell apart from exponentials or other rapidly 
decaying functions, and occur rarely in nature.  More likely what you have 
is an exponential.

Mark



On 03/31/2011 04:16 PM, Ronaldo Menezes wrote:
> ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** I'm dealing with a
> network in which the degree of the power-law distribution varies between
> 7 and 9 (lambda).
> I somehow think that someone at NetSci 2010 (maybe it was Mark Newman)
> talked about networks
> with high degree (and low as well) and even had a classification for
> these networks. However I can't seem to find
> anything on it. Does anyone know of any published work that looks at
> these kinds of networks?
>
> If you know of a published paper on this I'd appreciate a link.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ronaldo
>
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