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Detrending career statistics in professional baseball: Accounting for the steroids era and beyond
Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner, H. Eugene Stanley
There is a long standing debate over how to objectively compare the career achievements of professional athletes from different historical eras. Developing an objective approach wi…
Anomalous electrical and frictionless flow conductance in complex networks
Eduardo López, Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin +2
We study transport properties such as electrical and frictionless flow conductance on scale-free and Erdos-Renyi networks. We consider the conductance G between two arbitrarily cho…
Optimal Path and Minimal Spanning Trees in Random Weighted Networks
L. A. Braunstein, Z. Wu, Y. Chen +7
We review results on the scaling of the optimal path length in random networks with weighted links or nodes. In strong disorder we find that the length of the optimal path increase…
The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
Dongfeng Fu, Fabio Pammolli, S. V. Buldyrev +4
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that the distribution is exponential in the central part a…
Statistical Properties of Business Firms Structure and Growth
Kaushik Matia, Dongfeng Fu, Sergey V. Buldyrev +3
We analyze a database comprising quarterly sales of 55624 pharmaceutical products commercialized by 3939 pharmaceutical firms in the period 1992--2001. We study the probability den…
On the Origin of Power-Law Fluctuations in Stock Prices
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Xavier Gabaix +1
We respond to the issues discussed by Farmer and Lillo (FL) related to our proposed approach to understanding the origin of power-law distributions in stock price fluctuations. Fir…