Modeling and predicting time series of social activities with fat-tailed distributions

Fat-tailed distributions, characterized by the relation P(x) ∝ x^{−α−1}, are an emergent statistical signature of many complex systems, and in particular of social activities. These fat-tailed distributions are the outcome of dynamical processes that, contrary to the shape of the distributions, is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miotto, José Maria
Other Authors: Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2016
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-211323
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-211323
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/21132/main.pdf