Scaling and universality in animate and inanimate systems

H. E. Stanley; L. A N Amaral; S. V. Buldyrev; A. L. Goldberger; S. Havlin; H. Leschhorn; P. Maass; H. A. Makse; C. K. Peng; M. A. Salinger; M. H R Stanley; G. M. Viswanathan

doi:10.1016/0378-4371(96)00086-6

Scaling and universality in animate and inanimate systems

H. E. Stanley^*, L. A N Amaral, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberger, S. Havlin, H. Leschhorn, P. Maass, H. A. Makse, C. K. Peng, M. A. Salinger, M. H R Stanley, G. M. Viswanathan

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Abstract

We illustrate the general principle that in biophysics, econophysics and possibly even city growth, the conceptual framework provided by scaling and universality may be of use in making sense of complex statistical data. Specifically, we discuss recent work on DNA sequences, heartbeat intervals, avalanche-like lung inflation, urban growth, and company growth. Although our main focus is on data, we also discuss statistical mechanical models.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	20-48
Number of pages	29
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	231
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(96)00086-6
State	Published - Sep 15 1996

Funding

Instituteso f Health (Human GenomeP roject), the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Aeronauticsa nd SpaceA dministration,t he Israel-USA Binational ScienceF oundation, Israel Academy of Sciences,a nd (to C-KP) by an NIH/NIMH PostdoctoralN RSA Fellowship.

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Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Statistics and Probability

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Stanley, H. E., Amaral, L. A. N., Buldyrev, S. V., Goldberger, A. L., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Makse, H. A., Peng, C. K., Salinger, M. A., Stanley, M. H. R., & Viswanathan, G. M. (1996). Scaling and universality in animate and inanimate systems. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 231(1-3), 20-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(96)00086-6

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