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most citedThe workings of the Maximum Entropy Principle in collective human behavior

35 citations · 65 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.soc-ph2017

Maximum Entropy Principle underlying the dynamics of automobile sales

A. Hernando, D. Villuendas, M. Sulc +3

We analyze an exhaustive data-set of new-cars monthly sales. The set refers to 10 years of Spanish sales of more than 6500 different car model configurations and a total of 10M sol…

nlin.AO2015

Thermodynamics of firms' growth

Eduardo Zambrano, Alberto Hernando, Aurelio Fernandez-Bariviera +2

The distribution of firms' growth and firms' sizes is a topic under intense scrutiny. In this paper we show that a thermodynamic model based on the Maximum Entropy Principle, with…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 9 cited

Memory endowed US cities and their demographic interactions

A. Hernando, R. Hernando, A. Plastino +1

A quantitative understanding of cities' demographic dynamics is becoming a potentially useful tool for planning sustainable growth. The concomitant theory should reveal details of…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 21 cited

Space-time correlations in urban sprawl

A. Hernando, R. Hernando, A. Plastino

Understanding demographic and migrational patterns constitutes a great challenge. Millions of individual decisions, motivated by economic, political, demographic, rational, and/or…

stat.AP2012★ 35 cited

The workings of the Maximum Entropy Principle in collective human behavior

A. Hernando, R. Hernando, A. Plastino +1

We exhibit compelling evidence regarding how well does the MaxEnt principle describe the rank-distribution of city-populations via an exhaustive study of the 50 Spanish provinces (…