Citations within a caption in Latex

Citations within a caption of a table or figure can produce errors. You will need to use the “\protect” statement.

\caption{The top line shows the result by Einstein et al \protect\cite{einstein}}.

EzyFit for Matlab

This looks quite good:

http://www.fast.u-psud.fr/ezyfit/

Power Laws and Matlab

Here is some info and software to fit Power Laws to your data.

Wiki

Matlab Software

Statistics with Python

Python for scientific use. Part I: Data Visualization

Python for scientific use, Part II: Data analysis

Power-Law Material

Interesting material on Power-Laws:

So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn’t That Special?

Power-law distributions in empirical data

Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto – a ranking tutorial

Do you want to put a black/white/both frame around your picture?

I was tired of looking at complicated (ehm, not free) applications to do this, so I wrote my own

Enjoy

#!/usr/bin/env python

from PIL import Image
import sys

if len(sys.argv)!=3 and len(sys.argv)!=4:
    print "USAGE: <command> <filename> <black border percentage> <white border percentage>"
    sys.exit(0)
   
filename=sys.argv[1]
percBlack=float(sys.argv[2])

if len(sys.argv)==3:
    percWhite=0
else:
    percWhite=float(sys.argv[3])
    

im = Image.open(filename)
blackWidth=int(im.size[0]*percBlack)
whiteWidth=int(im.size[0]*percWhite)
white = Image.new('RGB',(im.size[0]+whiteWidth,im.size[1]+whiteWidth),'white')
black = Image.new('RGB',(white.size[0]+blackWidth,white.size[1]+blackWidth),'black')
white.paste(im,(int(whiteWidth/2),int(whiteWidth/2)))
black.paste(white,(int(blackWidth/2),int(blackWidth/2)))
black.save('framed-'+filename)