Sizing Up Allometric Scaling Theory
Figure 4
Finite-size corrections for networks with only area-increasing branching.
As in Figure 3, but networks are now constructed with area-increasing branching only. The abscissa reflects the absolute size range, NS+1/NL+1, within each group used to determine the scaling exponent. NS and NL are the number of levels in the smallest and largest networks, respectively. Note that NS+1/NL+1 is always smaller than 1 and the scaling exponent α has an accumulation point at 1, the infinite size limit. Black circles: numerical data. Red line: analytical approximation, Equation 20.