Review
Dragon-kings: Mechanisms, statistical methods and empirical evidence p. 1
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01559-5
The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Volume 205 (May I 2012)
Discussion and Debate: From Black Swans to Dragon-Kings - Is There Life Beyond Power Laws?
Mechanisms of Dragon-Kings Modeling of super-extreme events: An application to the hierarchical Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Continuous-time Random Walk p. 27
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01560-0
Statistical outliers and dragon-kings as Bose-condensed droplets p. 53
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01561-y
Mechanistic origin of dragon-kings in a population of competing agents p. 65
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01562-x
Statistical Tests Black swans or dragon-kings? A simple test for deviations from the power law p. 79
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01563-9
Robust statistical tests of Dragon-Kings beyond power law distributions p. 95
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01564-8
Review
Are there “dragon-kings” events (i.e. genuine outliers) among extreme avalanches? p. 117
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01565-7
A case study of a “Dragon-King”: The 1999 Venezuelan catastrophe p. 131
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01566-6
Comparison of Pareto and tapered Pareto distributions for environmental phenomena p. 159
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01568-4
Review
Black swans, power laws, and dragon-kings: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, wildfires, floods, and SOC models p. 167
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01569-3
Review
Extreme events and predictability of catastrophic failure in composite materials and in the Earth p. 183
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01570-x
Variability in the power-law distributions of rupture events How and why does b-value change p. 199
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01571-9
Dragon-Kings in rock fracturing: Insights gained from rock fracture tests in the laboratory p. 217
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01572-8
Stick balancing, falls and Dragon-Kings p. 231
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01573-7
Are dragon-king neuronal avalanches dungeons for self-organized brain activity? p. 243
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01574-6
Neuronal avalanches and coherence potentials p. 259
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01575-5
Runaway events dominate the heavy tail of citation distributions p. 303
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01576-4
Extreme events in population dynamics with functional carrying capacity p. 313
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01577-3
On the dynamics of the world demographic transition and financial-economic crises forecasts p. 355
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DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01578-2
