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q-bio.PE2016★ 2 cited
Universal statistics of selected values
Matteo Smerlak, Ahmed Youssef
Selection, the tendency of some traits to become more frequent than others in a population under the influence of some (natural or artificial) agency, is a key component of Darwini…
econ.GN2016★ 5 cited
A non-equilibrium formulation of food security resilience
Matteo Smerlak, Bapu Vaitla
Resilience, the ability to recover from adverse events ("shocks"), is of fundamental importance to food security. This is especially true in poor countries, where basic needs are f…
cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 1 cited
Minimum relative entropy distributions with a large mean are Gaussian
Matteo Smerlak
We consider the following frustrated optimization problem: given a prior probability distribution , find the distribution minimizing the relative entropy with respect to …