Scale-invariance of random populations: From Paretian to Poissonian fractality

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 383, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-189

  Eliazar, Iddo ^a,b   Klafter, Joseph ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extreme value distributions; Fractals; L vy Stable distributions; Paretian fractality; Poisson processes; Poissonian fractality; Renormalization; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; LEVY STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARETIAN DISTRIBUTION; POISSONIAN APPROACH; RENORMALIZATION; SCALE-INVARIANCE;

FRACTALS;

EID: 34447106213     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.04.044     Document Type: Article

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