The Science of Disasters : Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes /
Are there universal laws governing the persistence of weather, and is it possible to predict climate transitions as generated by natural or man-made perturbations? How can one quantify the roller-coaster dynamics of stock markets and anticipate mega-crashes? Can we diagnose the health condition of p...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- General
- Entropy, complexity, predictability and data analysis of time series and letter sequences
- Wavelet based multifractal formalism
- Space-time variability of the European climate
- Atmospheric persistence analysis
- Is climate predictable?- Fractal and multifractal approaches in physiology
- Physiological relevance of scaling of heart phenomena
- Local scaling properties for diagnostic purposes
- Unstable periodic orbits and stochastic synchronization in sensory biology
- Crowd disasters and simulation of panic situations
- Investigations of financial markets using statistical physics methods
- Market fluctuations I: Scaling, multi-scaling and their possible origins
- Market fluctuations II: Multiplicative and percolation models, size effects and predicitons.