| dc.contributor.author | Nieves, Veronica | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, Jingfeng | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bras, Rafael L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wood, Elizabeth B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-25T16:19:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-25T16:19:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2010-07 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60702 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Organizations of many variables in nature such as soil moisture and topography exhibit patterns with no dominant scales. The maximum entropy (ME) principle is proposed to show how these variables can be statistically described using their scale-invariant properties and geometric mean. The ME principle predicts with great simplicity the probability distribution of a scale-invariant process in terms of macroscopic observables. The ME principle offers a universal and unified framework for characterizing such multiscaling processes. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Army Research Office (RDECOM ARL) (Grant No. W911NF-07- 1-0126) | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.118701 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.source | APS | en_US |
| dc.title | Maximum Entropy Distributions of Scale-Invariant Processes | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nieves, Veronica et al. "." Physical Review Letters 105.11 (2010): 118701. © 2010 The American Physical Society | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.approver | Wood, Elizabeth B. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Bras, Rafael L. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Wood, Elizabeth B. | |
| dc.relation.journal | Physical Review Letters | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Nieves, Veronica; Wang, Jingfeng; Bras, Rafael; Wood, Elizabeth | en |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-1935 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
