A short account of a connection of power laws to the information entropy

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 334, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 591-599

  Dover, Yaniv ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Information theory; Power laws; Self organizing systems; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SELF ORGANIZING STORAGE;

POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0742302967     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.09.029     Document Type: Article

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