This paper analyzes Austrian and euro area opinion polls to assess the Austrian public’s views about the single currency five years after the introduction of euro cash. The analysis focuses on the following questions: How are Austrians managing with the euro now? How do Austrians assess the...

Using ARIMA models and entropy, the dynamic evolution of several functions of aggregate income and other attributes of well-being is analyzed for statistical "similarity" in order to determine potentially distinct dimensions in multidimensional analysis of welfare and quality of life in the US....

We use Tsallis’ information measure and the recently advanced “escort-Tsallis” one in order to investigate the stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon. In particular, on the basis of these generalized information measures (GIM), both characterized by a non-extensivity parameter q, we study...

The Fisher–Shannon statistical measure of complexity is analyzed for a continuous manifold of quantum observables. It is shown that evaluating this measure only in the configuration or in the momentum spaces does not provide an adequate characterization of the complexity of some quantum...

General relations are found between the measure of the uniformity of distributions on the phase space and the first moments and correlations of extensive variables for systems close to thermal equilibrium. The role played by the parameter of the Renyi entropy for the analysis of their...

Product probability property, known in the literature as statistical independence, is examined first. Then generalized entropies are introduced, all of which give generalizations to Shannon entropy. It is shown that the nature of the recursivity postulate automatically determines the logarithmic...

It seems reasonable to consider concavity (with regard to all probability distributions) and stability (under arbitrarily small deformations of any given probability distribution) as necessary for an entropic form to be a physical one in the thermostatistical sense. Most known entropic forms,...

The Lesche stability condition for the Shannon entropy (J. Stat. Phys. 27 (1982) 419), represents a fundamental test, for its experimental robustness, for systems obeying the Maxwell–Boltzmann statistical mechanics. Of course, this stability condition must be satisfied by any entropic...