• PoCS: Peter Sheridan Dodds's Principles of Complex Systems, Fall 2018

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Slide Set 04: Power-law size distributions

Slide Set 03: Allometric scaling
 
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Slide Set 05: Zipfian measure­ments

The Statistics of Surprise.

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Covered in these episodes:


05e: Estimating wealth distributions (4:12)

05f: Not being homo probablisticus (6:38)

05g: Girl born on a Tuesday (5:53)

05h: More on wealth distributions ()

05i: Power-law size distributions (18:36)

05k: A shock of power law size distributions (15:10)

06c: Power laws: Lack of scale (6:12)

06d: Mean, moments, variance (5:21)

06e: Maximum sample scaling (3:21)

06f: Complementary Cumulative Distribution Functions (CCDFs) (4:24)

06g: Boggoracle: Zipf's Law with bonus vice cream recipe (1:10)

06h: Zipf's Law and CCDFs (9:13)

06i: Zipf's law in chess (1:50)

06j: Our Don Bradman (2:32)



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