Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Unobserved Variables

Fluctuating fitness shapes the clone-size distribution of immune repertoires

(2015) Jonathan Desponds et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermodynamics and signatures of criticality in a network of neurons

(2015) Gašper Tkačik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On Criticality in High-Dimensional Data

(2014) Saeed Saremi et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Zipf’s Law and Criticality in Multivariate Data without Fine-Tuning

(2014) David J. Schwab et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The effect of nonstationarity on models inferred from neural data

(2013) Joanna Tyrcha et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

A Virtual Retina for Studying Population Coding

(2013) Illya Bomash et al.   PLoS One

Hierarchical model of natural images and the origin of scale invariance

(2013) S. Saremi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Retinal prosthetic strategy with the capacity to restore normal vision

(2012) S. Nirenberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?

(2011) Thierry Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Emergence of Zipf’s law in the evolution of communication

(2011) Bernat Corominas-Murtra et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Common Input Explains Higher-Order Correlations and Entropy in a Simple Model of Neural Population Activity

(2011) Jakob H. Macke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity

(2010) T. Mora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The probability of neurotransmitter release: variability and feedback control at single synapses

(2009) Tiago Branco et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE