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#arcsin law #brownian motion #paradox #stochastic The probability of going through a bad patch We’ve heard it: people that invest on the stock market or that gamble in lotteries, casinos, etc usually say “I’m going through a bad patch” (or bad spell). That is, they have … ...
#journal #papers #self-advertising Being part of "best of 2008" I got wonderful news today. Our paper “Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market” (pdf) has been selected by the Editorial Board of New Journal of Physics … ...
The use of statistics Mark Twain (1924) probably had politicians in mind when he reiterated Disraeli’s famous remark ("There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"). Scientists, we hope, would never use … ...
#Fokker-Planck #Ito #Stochastic Differential Equations Itô calculus for the rest of us One of the areas of my research is stochastic differential equations (SDE). I posted about it several times before. One of the things students and collaborators keep asking me about SDEs is the weird … ...
Visualizing citation networks The Eigenfactor Project and Moritz Stefaner join efforts to visualize the citation network between different journals belonging to different research fields. It is amazing and a wonderful way to … ...
#Paradox #Queueing theory #Stochastic Waiting for the bus Although the public transportation system in Madrid is very good, I don’t usually take the bus or the train to move around. But sometimes my car decides I should take public transportation (bus … ...
Referee Reports I found an interesting presentation by Sami Mitra, associate editor of Physical Review Letters, about the editorial office and the editorial process at PRL. Among some interesting figures about the … ...
#Add new tag #impact factor #long tail #social networks Publish and... perish In the old days, research quality was measured by the number of papers you published. Publishing was a hard process and only few scientists were able to publish several papers per year. However, with … ...
The best job in 2008 was ... mathematician! Good news to fans of the “language of Nature”, mathematics. Wall Street Journal is running an article on what are the best jobs in 2008. The ranking is done “evaluating 200 … ...
