Schematics of concluding steps in DFA algorithm. As the top panels show, the MSE
values depicted in Figure 1 contribute to
an average whose square root is a root mean-square (RMS) error statistic, and
each bin size has a corresponding RMS statistic. The bottom panels schematize,
on the left, the plot of RMS statistics for each bin size with newer grey
circles representing other RMS values for intermediate bin sizes not schematized
in these figures and, on the right, a logarithmic scaling of the RMS error and a
logarithmic scaling of the time scale represented by the bin sizes. The lower
right panel schematizes the possibility that this RMS function, once
logarithmically transformed, can yield a linear relationship whose slope is an
estimate of the power-law exponent.