... by alternative specific methods on a case-by-case basis, based simply on best-fit criteria. Here, I argue that the use of logarithms in scaling analyses presents multiple valuable advantages, both statistical and conceptual. Most importantly, log-transformation allows biologically meaningful, properly scaled...

... Kleiber in 1932, has been derived repeatedly in empirical research by independent investigators and has come to be known as`Kleiber's Law'. The exponent was estimated in virtually every instance,however, by fitting a straight line to logarithmic transformations of data and by then re-expressing...