Heavy tailed RVs do some weird things that make them unintuitive. I should collect a list of what. See also densities and intensities, survival analysis, extreme value theory, risk management
Also, should list the many diverse phenomena that are associated, e.g. fractals etc. 🏗
References
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Asmussen, Søren, and Dirk P. Kroese. 2006. “Improved Algorithms for Rare Event Simulation with Heavy Tails.” Advances in Applied Probability 38 (2): 545–58.
Chatfield, Ken, Victor Lempitsky, Andrea Vedaldi, and Andrew Zisserman. 2011. “The Devil Is in the Details: An Evaluation of Recent Feature Encoding Methods,” November.
Cirillo, Pasquale, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 2020. “Tail Risk of Contagious Diseases.” Nature Physics 16 (6): 606–13.
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———. 2009. “Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises.” arXiv:0907.4290 [Physics] 2 (1).
Sornette, Didier, and Peter Cauwels. 2015. “Managing Risk in a Creepy World.” Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 8 (1): 83–108.
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Vázquez, Alexei, João Gama Oliveira, Zoltán Dezsö, Kwang-Il Goh, Imre Kondor, and Albert-László Barabási. 2006. “Modeling Bursts and Heavy Tails in Human Dynamics.” Physical Review E 73 (3): 036127.
Weitzman, Martin L. 2011. “Fat-Tailed Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5 (2): 275–92.
Wheatley, Spencer, Benjamin Sovacool, and Didier Sornette. 2017. “Of Disasters and Dragon Kings: A Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Power Incidents and Accidents.” Risk Analysis 37 (1): 99–115.
Zhou, Wei-Xing, and Didier Sornette. 2002. “Statistical Significance of Periodicity and Log-Periodicity with Heavy-Tailed Correlated Noise.” International Journal of Modern Physics C 13 (02): 137–69.
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