Power laws and predicting the development of the web

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Web Science[1]

In statistics, a power law is a functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another. [2].

Related to web science (and this article in particular) we imagine for every new web site there is a rise in the total number of new connections. If I have 10 websites, I have a total

number of websites total number of possible connections (n*(n-1)/2)
10 45
11 50
12 66
13 78
14 91
15 105

I don't think we can say this relationship reflects a powerlaw relationship:

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Do you understand this?[edit]

Standards[edit]

These standards are used from the IB Computer Science Subject Guide[3]

  • Discuss whether power laws are appropriate to predict the development of the web.



References[edit]

  1. http://www.flaticon.com/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
  3. IB Diploma Programme Computer science guide (first examinations 2014). Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom: International Baccalaureate Organization. January 2012.