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physics.soc-ph2008
"Bubbles in Society": The Example of the United States Apollo Program
Monika Gisler, Didier Sornette
We present an analysis of the economic, political and social factors that underlay the Apollo program, one of the most exceptional and costly projects ever undertaken by the United…
physics.geo-ph2008★ 2 cited
Characterization of the tail of the distribution of earthquake magnitudes by combining the GEV and GPD descriptions of Extreme Value Theory
V. F. Pisarenko, A. Sornette, D. Sornette +1
We present a generic and powerful approach to study the statistics of extreme phenomena (meteorology, finance, biology...) that we apply to the statistical estimation of the tail o…
q-bio.NC2008
Novel insights into the dynamics of intractable human epilepsy
Ivan Osorio, Mark G. Frei, Didier Sornette +1
Probability density functions and the probability of Sz occurrence conditional upon the time elapsed from the previous Sz were estimated using the energy and intervals of SZ in pro…