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The workings of the Maximum Entropy Principle in collective human behavior

Applications 2013-12-09 v2 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Physics and Society

Abstract

We exhibit compelling evidence regarding how well does the MaxEnt principle describe the rank-distribution of city-populations via an exhaustive study of the 50 Spanish provinces (more than 8000 cities) in a time-window of 15 years (1996-2010). We show that the dynamics that governs the population-growth is the deciding factor that originates the observed distributions. The connection between dynamics and distributions is unravelled via MaxEnt.

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@article{arxiv.1201.0905,
  title  = {The workings of the Maximum Entropy Principle in collective human behavior},
  author = {A. Hernando and R. Hernando and A. Plastino and A. R. Plastino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0905},
  year   = {2013}
}

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