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| dc.contributor.author | Navas-Portella, Víctor |
|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | González, Álvaro |
| dc.contributor.author | Serra, Isabel |
| dc.contributor.author | Vives, Eduard |
| dc.contributor.author | Corral, Álvaro |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-27T07:00:42Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-27T07:00:42Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07-01 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2072/378026 |
| dc.description.abstract | Power-law-type distributions are extensively found when studying the behavior of many complex systems. However, due to limitations in data acquisition, empirical datasets often only cover a narrow range of observation, making it difficult to establish power-law behavior unambiguously. In this work we present a statistical procedure to merge different datasets, with two different aims. First, we obtain a broader fitting range for the statistics of different experiments or observations of the same system. Second, we establish whether two or more different systems may belong to the same universality class. By means of maximum likelihood estimation, this methodology provides rigorous statistical information to discern whether power-law exponents characterizing different datasets can be considered equal among them or not. This procedure is applied to the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthquakes and for synthetic earthquakes (acoustic emission events) generated in the laboratory: labquakes. Different earthquake catalogs have been merged finding a Gutenberg-Richter law holding for more than eight orders of magnitude in seismic moment. The value of the exponent of the energy distribution of labquakes depends on the material used in the compression experiments. By means of the procedure proposed in this manuscript, we find that the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthquakes and charcoal labquakes can be characterized by the same power-law exponent, whereas Vycor labquakes exhibit a significantly different exponent. |
| dc.format.extent | 14 p. |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Physics Review E (American Physical Society) |
| dc.rights | L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| dc.source | RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
| dc.subject.other | Matemàtiques |
| dc.title | Universality of power-law exponents by means of maximum-likelihood estimation |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/draft |
| dc.subject.udc | 51 - Matemàtiques |
| dc.embargo.terms | cap |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/physreve.100.062106 |
| dc.rights.accessLevel | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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