Dragon-kings, black swans, and the prediction of crises

International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Sornette, Didier ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Catastrophes; Crisis; Extremes; Kings; Outliers; Power laws; Prediction; Red dragons

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951465043     PISSN: 19433514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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