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Figure 1: Measuring fit of the Ricker model. There is extremely strong statistical evidence that the Nicholson blowfly fluctuations are limit cycles perturbed by noise. They are not the result of ...

In recent years, a need for compact representations of databases has become apparent, for example in natural language understanding, machine learning, and decision making, accompanied by a need for ...