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power law
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Noun1.power law - (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity
Stevens' law, Stevens' power law
law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
psychophysics - the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects
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In earthquake prediction power laws link the size of an individual quake with the time that passes between quakes of that size.
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However, research suggests that the forces that give rise to the power laws of stock market fluctuations are extremely robust.
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Power laws For instance, the curve showing the small number of large stock market crashes shading into the large number of small ones.
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