Taylor's power law and fluctuation scaling explained by a central-limit-like convergence

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a   Jørgensen, Bent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULANTS; DENSITY OF STATE; EXPONENTIAL DISPERSION MODELS; EXTERNAL FIELDS; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; HUMAN CHROMOSOMES; MEASUREMENT SCALE; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; POWER FUNCTIONS; POWER LAW; POWER VARIANCE; PROBABILISTIC DESCRIPTIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL SCALE; THERMODYNAMIC MECHANISM; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

GENES; MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 79961053393     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.066115     Document Type: Article

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