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(Anti)Fragility and Convex Responses in Medicine
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This paper applies risk analysis to medical problems, through the properties of nonlinear responses (convex or concave). It shows 1) necessary relations between the nonlinearity of…
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How Much Data Do You Need? An Operational, Pre-Asymptotic Metric for Fat-tailedness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This note presents an operational measure of fat-tailedness for univariate probability distributions, in where 0 is maximally thin-tailed (Gaussian) and 1 is maximally fat-…