The European Physical Journal Special Topics

Review

Dragon-kings: Mechanisms, statistical methods and empirical evidence p. 1

D. Sornette and G. Ouillon

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01559-5

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Mechanisms of Dragon-Kings Modeling of super-extreme events: An application to the hierarchical Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Continuous-time Random Walk p. 27

T.R. Werner, T. Gubiec, R. Kutner and D. Sornette

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01560-0

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Statistical outliers and dragon-kings as Bose-condensed droplets p. 53

V.I. Yukalov and D. Sornette

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01561-y

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Mechanistic origin of dragon-kings in a population of competing agents p. 65

N. Johnson and B. Tivnan

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01562-x

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Statistical Tests Black swans or dragon-kings? A simple test for deviations from the power law p. 79

J. Janczura and R. Weron

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01563-9

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Robust statistical tests of Dragon-Kings beyond power law distributions p. 95

V.F. Pisarenko and D. Sornette

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01564-8

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Review

Are there “dragon-kings” events (i.e. genuine outliers) among extreme avalanches? p. 117

C. Ancey

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01565-7

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A case study of a “Dragon-King”: The 1999 Venezuelan catastrophe p. 131

M. Süveges and A.C. Davison

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01566-6

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Rainfall and Dragon-Kings p. 147

O. Peters, K. Christensen and J.D. Neelin

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01567-5

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Comparison of Pareto and tapered Pareto distributions for environmental phenomena p. 159

F.P. Schoenberg and R.D. Patel

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01568-4

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Review

Black swans, power laws, and dragon-kings: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, wildfires, floods, and SOC models p. 167

M.K. Sachs, M.R. Yoder, D.L. Turcotte, J.B. Rundle and B.D. Malamud

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01569-3

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Review

Extreme events and predictability of catastrophic failure in composite materials and in the Earth p. 183

I. Main and M. Naylor

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01570-x

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Variability in the power-law distributions of rupture events How and why does b-value change p. 199

D. Amitrano

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01571-9

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Dragon-Kings in rock fracturing: Insights gained from rock fracture tests in the laboratory p. 217

X. Lei

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01572-8

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Stick balancing, falls and Dragon-Kings p. 231

J.L. Cabrera and J.G. Milton

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01573-7

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Are dragon-king neuronal avalanches dungeons for self-organized brain activity? p. 243

L. de Arcangelis

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01574-6

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Neuronal avalanches and coherence potentials p. 259

D. Plenz

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01575-5

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Runaway events dominate the heavy tail of citation distributions p. 303

M. Golosovsky and S. Solomon

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01576-4

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Extreme events in population dynamics with functional carrying capacity p. 313

V.I. Yukalov, E.P. Yukalova and D. Sornette

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01577-3

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On the dynamics of the world demographic transition and financial-economic crises forecasts p. 355

A. Akaev, V. Sadovnichy and A. Korotayev

Published online: 01 May 2012

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2012-01578-2

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