Fat Tailed Distributions in Catastrophe Prediction

2005/12/06 by Mello, Louis
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Other Computer Science (cs.OH)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0512022

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of fat-tailed distributions in catastrophe prediction as opposed to the more common use of the Normal Distribution.

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