Entropic measures of individual mobility patterns

Entropic measures of individual mobility patterns

Understanding human mobility from a microscopic point of view may represent a fundamental breakthrough for the development of a statistical physics for cognitive systems and it can shed light on the applicability of macroscopic statistical laws for social systems. Even if the complexity of individual behaviors prevents a true microscopic approach, the introduction of mesoscopic models allows th...

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Individual Wage Mobility Individual Wage Mobility

This paper identifies some of the determinants of individual mobility in the wage distribution over time. The proposed model takes attrition as well as the decile of origin into account unlike all other used models to describe the wage mobility. A simpel probit analysis is compared with the more sofisticated method used in this paper. Even though the wage distribution in Denmark has been nearly...

Diseases spreading through individual based models with realistic mobility patterns

The individual-based models constitute a set of widely implemented tools to analyze the incidence of individuals heterogeneities in the spread of an infectious disease. In this work we focus our attention on human contacts heterogeneities through two of the main individual-based models: mobile agents and complex networks models. We introduce a novel mobile agents model in which individuals make...

Entropic measures, Markov information sources and complexity

The concept of entropy plays a major part in communication theory. The Shannon entropy is a measure of uncertainty with respect to a priori probability distribution. In algorithmic information theory the information content of a message is measured in terms of the size in bits of the smallest program for computing that message. This paper discusses the classical entropy and entropy rate for dis...