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adap-org1998
Extinction, diversity and survivorship of taxa in the fossil record
M. E. J. Newman, Paolo Sibani
Using data drawn from large-scale databases, a number of interesting trends in the fossil record have been observed in recent years. These include the average decline in extinction…
adap-org1998★ 1 cited
Decline in extinction rates and scale invariance in the fossil record
M. E. J. Newman, Gunther J. Eble
We show that the decline in the extinction rate during the Phanerozoic can be accurately parameterized by a logarithmic fit to the cumulative total extinction. This implies that ex…
cond-mat.stat-mech1998★ 6 cited
Error estimation in the histogram Monte Carlo method
M. E. J. Newman, R. G. Palmer
We examine the sources of error in the histogram reweighting method for Monte Carlo data analysis. We demonstrate that, in addition to the standard statistical error which has been…