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Maximum Entropy Principle underlying the dynamics of automobile sales
A. Hernando, D. Villuendas, M. Sulc +3
We analyze an exhaustive data-set of new-cars monthly sales. The set refers to 10 years of Spanish sales of more than 6500 different car model configurations and a total of 10M sol…
Zipf's law from a Fisher variational-principle
A. Hernando, D. Puigdomenech, D. Villuendas +2
Zipf's law is shown to arise as the variational solution of a problem formulated in Fisher's terms. An appropriate minimization process involving Fisher information and scale-invar…
Unravelling the size distribution of social groups with information theory on complex networks
A. Hernando, D. Villuendas, C. Vesperinas +2
The minimization of Fisher's information (MFI) approach of Frieden et al. [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 60} 48 (1999)] is applied to the study of size distributions in social groups on the ba…