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It's distributions all the way down!: Second order changes in statistical distributions also occur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2014

Mark T. Keane  and
Aaron Gerow
Mark T. Keane
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. mark.keane@ucd.ie www.csi.ucd.ie/users/mark-keane
Aaron Gerow
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. gerowa@tcd.ie www.scss.tcd.ie/~gerowa
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Abstract

The textual, big-data literature misses Bentley et al.’s message on distributions; it largely examines the first-order effects of how a single, signature distribution can predict population behaviour, neglecting second-order effects involving distributional shifts, either between signature distributions or within a given signature distribution. Indeed, Bentley et al. themselves under-emphasise the potential richness of the latter, within-distribution effects.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 87
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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