Abstract:A power law distribution is a mathematically lopsided probability distribution in which one quantity varies as a power of another. Probability distributions, in general, describe the percentage of items that have a particular value in a data set. Empirical examples of power law distributions typically involve a small group of "bad actors" within a population that cause the tail of the distribution to skew away from that of a straight line. Avionics failures within the Naval Air Enterprise (NAE) also typically … Show more
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