Re: [igraph] potential revamp of power.law.fit implementation

[Tamás Nepusz]

Dear Bob,

Thanks for the feature request. As a matter of fact, I also have my own C 
implementation of the Clauset-Shalizi-Newman method (see 
http://github.com/ntamas/plfit for a standalone version) and its igraph 
integration has been on my TODO list for a long time -- unfortunately I never 
got around to actually merging the two codebases, but now that you mentioned 
it, I will increase its priority. Hopefully it will make its way into igraph 
0.7 but I have to tie up some loose ends first.

Best,
Tamas

On 27 Nov 2012, at 18:08, Bob Pap <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Gabor and Tamás,
> 
> You may want to consider upgrading the power.law.fit function in igraph to 
> profit from developments documented in 
> 
> A. Clauset, C.R. Shalizi, and M.E.J. Newman, "Power-law distributions in 
> empirical data" SIAM Review 51(4), 661-703 (2009). (arXiv:0706.1062, 
> doi:10.1137/070710111)
> 
> which allow in-function assessment of the minimal degree value for the 
> estimation of alpha.  As documented in the article, an implementation is 
> available - also for R - in http://www.santafe.edu/~aaronc/powerlaws/ 
> (function plfit.r). The results seem in line with the current igraph 
> implementation for the graph I am working on with the added advantage of 
> having the minimum degree estimated automatically!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Bob
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