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Moments of undersampled distributions: Application to the size of epidemics
Alvaro Corral
The total number of fatalities of an epidemic outbreak is a dramatic but extremely informative quantity. Knowledge of the statistics of this quantity allows the calculation of the…
Finite-size scaling of human-population distributions over fixed-size cells and its relation to fractal spatial structure
Alvaro Corral, Montserrat García del Muro
Using demographic data of high spatial resolution for a region in the south of Europe, we study the population over fixed-size spatial cells. We find that, counterintuitively, the…
Finite-time scaling for epidemic processes with power-law superspreading events
Carles Falcó, Álvaro Corral
Epidemics unfold by means of a spreading process from each infected individual to a random number of secondary cases. It has been claimed that the so-called superspreading events i…
Lognormals, Power Laws and Double Power Laws in the Distribution of Frequencies of Harmonic Codewords from Classical Music
Marc Serra-Peralta, Joan Serrà, Álvaro Corral
Zipf's law is a paradigm describing the importance of different elements in communication systems, especially in linguistics. Despite the complexity of the hierarchical structure o…
Heaps' Law and Vocabulary Richness in the History of Classical Music Harmony
Marc Serra-Peralta, Joan Serrà, Álvaro Corral
Music is a fundamental human construct, and harmony provides the building blocks of musical language. Using the Kunstderfuge corpus of classical music, we analyze the historical ev…
Finite-size scaling versus dual random variables and shadow moments in the size distribution of epidemics
Alvaro Corral
I discuss and criticize the use of "dual transformations" to calculate "shadow moments" in the distribution of epidemic fatalities. I show how this transformation is arbitrary and…