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Chapman, Sandra C., Rowlands, G. (George) and Watkins, Nicholas W. (2002) Extremum statistics: a framework for data analysis. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Vol.9 . pp. 409-418. ISSN 1023-5809.
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Abstract
Recent work has suggested that in highly correlated
systems, such as sandpiles, turbulent fluids, ignited
trees in forest fires and magnetization in a ferromagnet close to a critical point, the probability distribution of a global quantity (i.e. total energy dissipation, magnetization and so forth) that has been normalized to the first two moments follows a specific non-Gaussian curve. This curve follows a form suggested by extremum statistics, which is specified by a single parameter a (a = 1 corresponds to the Fisher-Tippett Type I (“Gumbel”) distribution).
Here we present a framework for testing for extremal
statistics in a global observable. In any given system, we
wish to obtain a, in order to distinguish between the different Fisher-Tippett asymptotes, and to compare with the
above work. The normalizations of the extremal curves are
obtained as a function of a. We find that for realistic ranges of data, the various extremal distributions, when normalized to the first two moments, are difficult to distinguish. In addition, the convergence to the limiting extremal distributions for finite data sets is both slow and varies with the asymptote.
However, when the third moment is expressed as a function
of a, this is found to be a more sensitive method.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) Q Science > QC Physics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Geophysics -- Data processing, Statistics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | ||||
| Publisher: | Copernicus GmbH | ||||
| ISSN: | 1023-5809 | ||||
| Official Date: | 8 February 2002 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.9 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 409-418 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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