Search Results - subject:"Extremal statistics"

Breaking records in the evolutionary race

Krug, Joachim; Jain, Kavita - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 358 (2005) 1, pp. 1-9

We explore some aspects of the relationship between biological evolution processes and the mathematical theory of records. For Eigen's quasispecies model with an uncorrelated fitness landscape, we show that the evolutionary trajectories traced out by a population initially localized at a...

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Punctuated evolution for the quasispecies model

Krug, Joachim; Karl, Christian - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 318 (2003) 1, pp. 137-143

Biological evolution in a sequence space with random fitnesses is studied within Eigen's quasispecies model. A strong selection limit is employed, in which the population resides at a single sequence at all times. Evolutionary trajectories start at a randomly chosen sequence and proceed to the...

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Football goal distributions and extremal statistics

Greenhough, J; Birch, P.C; Chapman, S.C; Rowlands, G - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 316 (2002) 1, pp. 615-624

PDFs are consistent with those arising from extremal statistics. In addition, we show that it is sufficient to model … reported in analyses of earlier seasons, and that these are not consistent with extremal statistics. …

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