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Fat-Tailed Distributions and Levy Processes

Applications 2008-08-19 v1

Abstract

The notion that natural disasters can be controlled is, of course, farcical; history is permeated with examples of countless failed attempts at this pointless task; it is synonymous with trying to build a perpetual motion machine. Nonetheless, there are ways to reduce their impact on human communities, particularly by looking away from the normal hypothesis.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0808.2393,
  title  = {Fat-Tailed Distributions and Levy Processes},
  author = {Louis Mello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2393},
  year   = {2008}
}
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