The birth-death-mutation process: a new paradigm for fat tailed distributions.

Fat tailed statistics and power-laws are ubiquitous in many complex systems. Usually the appearance of of a few anomalously successful individuals (bio-species, investors, websites) is interpreted as reflecting some inherent "quality" (fitness, talent, giftedness) as in Darwin's theor...

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Main Authors: Yosef E Maruvka, David A Kessler, Nadav M Shnerb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206027?pdf=render