Fitting issues with standard configuration

[polakowo]

Hello,

first of all thank you for providing us with such a comprehensive package. I'm a first time user and cannot figure out how to produce meaningful results despite reading your paper.

I have the following distribution: Counter({1: 233, 2: 33, 3: 13, 4: 10, 5: 2, 6: 3, 7: 2, 8: 2, 9: 1, 11: 1, 15: 1, 18: 1})

When trying to feed the powerlaw.Fit method with my dataset I get warning "RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in true_divide (Theoretical_CDF * (1 - Theoretical_CDF))", which can be ignored as I discovered in older threads.

The issue is poor scaling parameters as an output: alpha = 3.81, xmin = 6. When plotting the hypothesized power-law distribution, you can clearly see the poor fit.

On the other hand when using the code provided by Clauset (http://www.santafe.edu/~aaronc/powerlaws/), a better fit is produced with alpha = 2.59, xmin = 1.

I tried a couple of different configurations, but the output stays the same, wondering what's going wrong?

Best regards