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SUBMITTER: Gandica Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367707 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gandica Yerali Y Carvalho João J Sampaio Dos Aidos Fernando F Lambiotte Renaud R Carletti Timoteo T
PloS one 20170327 3
A number of human activities exhibit a bursty pattern, namely periods of very high activity that are followed by rest periods. Records of these processes generate time series of events whose inter-event times follow a probability distribution that displays a fat tail. The grounds for such phenomenon are not yet clearly understood. In the present work we use the freely available Wikipedia's editing records to unravel some features of this phenomenon. We show that even though the probability to st ...[more]