  We examine the proposal that a model of the large-scale matter distribution
consisting of randomly placed haloes with power-law profile, as opposed to a
fractal model, can account for the observed power-law galaxy-galaxy
correlations. We conclude that such model, which can actually be considered as
a degenerate multifractal model, is not realistic but suggests a new picture of
multifractal models, namely, as sets of fractal distributions of haloes. We
analyse, according to this picture, the properties of the matter distribution
produced in cosmological N-body simulations, with affirmative results; namely,
haloes of similar mass have a fractal distribution with a given dimension,
which grows as the mass diminishes.
