.. index:: powerlaw
.. _powerlaw:

powerlaw
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Description
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powerlaw is a toolbox to determine if a probability distribution fits a power law.

User instructions
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powerlaw is available via the modules system.  To add it to your environment run:

.. code-block:: bash

    $ module load powerlaw/1.4.3

Documentation is available at http://pythonhosted.org/powerlaw/.  Note that a citation is requested if used in publications.

Source
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https://pypi.python.org/pypi/powerlaw

License
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MIT.

Admin notes
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Both python2 and python3 versions were installed from pip:

.. code-block:: bash

    PYTHONUSERBASE=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/2.7/powerlaw/powerlaw-1.4.3 pip install --upgrade powerlaw
    PYTHONUSERBASE=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/3.5/powerlaw/powerlaw-1.4.3 pip3 install --upgrade powerlaw