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. 2016 Jun 6;113(26):7047–7052. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525443113

Table 1.

Critical exponents

Dataset αr βr θr δr βr˜ αr βr θr δr βr˜
D1 1.22±0.03 0.89±0.04 0.89±0.02 0.15±0.02 0.94±0.04 2.02±0.08 1.50±0.06 0.88±0.02 0.16±0.04 1.61±0.09
D2 1.28±0.07 1.00±0.07 0.94±0.02 0.16±0.02 1.04±0.08 1.75±0.05 1.35±0.03 0.92±0.02 0.17±0.03 1.44±0.07
D3 1.00±0.07 0.64±0.03 0.67±0.03 0.07±0.15 0.70±0.16 1.80±0.14 1.57±0.18 0.83±0.04 0.24±0.08 1.25±0.16

We measured αr, βr, θr, and δr independently for each dataset by using rank as distance metric. We estimate the errors in our measurements based on 95% confidence level. We then compute βr˜=αrθrδr using Eq. 8. The error of βr˜, σ(βr˜), is calculated using error propagations σ(βr˜)=θr2σ2(αr)+αr2σ2(θr)+σ2(δr). We find that βr˜ largely agrees with βr within uncertainties across all datasets. Similarly, we repeated the same measurements by using geodesic distance, obtaining αr, βr, θr, δr, and their corresponding errors, allowing us to compute βr˜ and its error σ(βr˜). We find βr˜ also well approximates βr. The largest deviations are observed in D3, which is characterized by much larger uncertainties in estimations of all exponents. This is due to its much smaller data size. Because both our data size and noninteger nature of distance metrics prevent us from using standard fitting algorithms for power laws (57), we computed all our exponents by using the least-square method.