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SUBMITTER: Blythe DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4890042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blythe Duncan A J DA Nikulin Vadim V VV Müller Klaus-Robert KR
Scientific reports 20160602
We show that widely used approaches in statistical physics incorrectly indicate the existence of power-law cross-correlations between financial stock market fluctuations measured over several years and the neuronal activity of the human brain lasting for only a few minutes. While such cross-correlations are nonsensical, no current methodology allows them to be reliably discarded, leaving researchers at greater risk when the spurious nature of cross-correlations is not clear from the unrelated or ...[more]