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Information Synergy Maximizes the Growth Rate of Heterogeneous Groups
Jordan T Kemp, Adam G Kline, Luís MA Bettencourt
Collective action and group formation are fundamental behaviors among both organisms cooperating to maximize their fitness, and people forming socioeconomic organizations. Research…
The Bayesian Origins of Growth Rates in Stochastic Environments
Jordan T. Kemp, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Stochastic multiplicative dynamics characterize many complex natural phenomena such as selection and mutation in evolving populations, and the generation and distribution of wealth…
Statistical Dynamics of Wealth Inequality in Stochastic Models of Growth
Jordan T. Kemp, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Understanding the statistical dynamics of growth and inequality is a fundamental challenge to ecology and society. Recent analyses of wealth and income dynamics in contemporary soc…
The Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number from Disease Outbreak Data
Ariel Cintrón-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chávez, Luís M. A. Bettencourt +2
We consider a single outbreak susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model and corresponding estimation procedures for the effective reproductive number . We discuss…
COVID-19 attack rate increases with city size
Andrew J. Stier, Marc G. Berman, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
The current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses an unprecedented global health and economic threat to interconnected human societies. Until a vaccine is dev…
Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The emergence of India as an urbanized nation is one of the most significant socioeconomic and political processes of the 21st century. An essential feature of India's urbanization…