For what it's worth, showing a straight line on a log-log plot isn't really enough to demonstrate existence of a power law.
Most papers that test for the existence of power laws don't test goodness-of-fit for other distribtions. The lognormal distribution is often just as good a fit to the data. This paper covers a lot of the frequent problems in academic literature that tries to fit power laws:
Most papers that test for the existence of power laws don't test goodness-of-fit for other distribtions. The lognormal distribution is often just as good a fit to the data. This paper covers a lot of the frequent problems in academic literature that tries to fit power laws:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062