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Power Laws

A Statistical Trek

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  • Presents an in-depth exposition of the power Poisson process
  • Highlights many applications including a socioeconomic analysis
  • Introduces the reader to all the statistical forms with inherent power structures

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 1-11
  3. From Lognormal to Power

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 13-29
  4. Setting the Stage

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 31-38
  5. Threshold Analysis

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 39-48
  6. Hazard Rates

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 49-51
  7. Lindy’s Law

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 53-60
  8. Order Statistics

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 61-79
  9. Exponent Estimation

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 81-86
  10. Socioeconomic Analysis

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 87-100
  11. Fractality

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 101-113
  12. Sums

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 115-123
  13. Dynamics

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 125-131
  14. Limit Laws

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 133-151
  15. First Digits

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 153-157
  16. Motions

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 159-176
  17. First Passage Times

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 177-181
  18. From Power to Lognormal

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 183-197
  19. Conclusion

    • Iddo Eliazar
    Pages 199-203

About this book

This monograph is a comprehensive and cohesive exposition of power-law statistics. Following a bottom-up construction from a foundational bedrock – the power Poisson process – this monograph presents a unified study of an assortment of power-law statistics including: Pareto laws, Zipf laws, Weibull and Fréchet laws, power Lorenz curves, Lévy laws, power Newcomb-Benford laws, sub-diffusion and super-diffusion, and 1/f and flicker noises.

The bedrock power Poisson process, as well as the assortment of power-law statistics, are investigated via diverse perspectives: structural, stochastic, fractal, dynamical, and socioeconomic.

This monograph is poised to serve researchers and practitioners – from various fields of science and engineering – that are engaged in analyses of power-law statistics.

Reviews

“A suitable book for both theoretical scholars and practitioners. The formal aspects are rigorously, and elegantly, presented and complex mathematical tools are always used to clarify and ease the reading. … we strongly recommend the reading of this comprehensive and well written monograph a book that should not be missing in the libraries of Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, and that may be of interest to both experienced researchers and practitioners.” (Giovanni Maria Giorgi, METRON, April 9, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Iddo Eliazar

About the author

Iddo Eliazar is an avid multi-disciplinary explorer of randomness, with about 150 scientific research publications on Operations Research, Stochastic Modeling, Statistical Physics, Econo-Physics and Socio-Physics.

In academia, he held senior faculty positions at Tel Aviv University, at Bar Ilan University, and at the Holon Institute of Technology.

In industry, he served as a Research Scientist at Intel’s New Devices Group, and as a Section Head at Bank Hapoalim’s Department of Analytic Development.

Dr. Eliazar holds the following degrees from Tel-Aviv University: BSc in Mathematics and Statistics (Summa Cum Laude), MSc in Operations Research (Summa Cum Laude), and PhD.

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Buying options

eBook USD 109.00
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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