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DJ Lane

Northeastern Illinois University

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“  The impact of multiplicative stochastic processes on social and political topics.  ”

Scholarly Papers (38)

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1.

A Time to Kill: On the Intervals Between John Wayne Gacy’s Murders

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Dec 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 801 (76,786)

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John Wayne Gacy, power law distribution, M.K. Simkin

2.

On the Distribution of Murder in Chicago

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Jun 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 115 (617,542)

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Lewis Richardson, homicide, fractal, self-similarity, Chicago Police Department

3.

Hollywood Self-Organization: The Distribution of Value in Movie Studio Film Budgets

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Apr 2024
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 98 (699,467)

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Power Law Distributions, Municipal Budgeting, and the Police: A Practical Guide

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 93 (725,554)

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Defund the Police, Pareto distributions, police departments, municipal budgeting

5.

World War II Convoys and the Distribution of Value

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Apr 2024
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 76 (830,555)

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World War II; Convoy system; Mandelbrot; Arthur DeVany

6.

Night and Fog: Are Bicameral States More Likely to Abuse Their Citizens?

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Jan 2019
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 76 (830,555)

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Bicameralism, Human Rights, John Coakley, G. Udny Yule, Karl Pearson, CIRI Human Rights Data Project

7.

Power Law Distributions In the Social Science Research Network

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 11 May 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 73 (852,604)

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Thomas Piketty, Power Law Distributions, economic inequality

8.

Comparing Zipf’s Law Fidelity With A Human Rights Index

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 70 (875,328)

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Zipf's Law, Human Rights

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How Long Were the Railroads of Britain? The Beeching Report, 1963, and the Fractality of British Railways

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Jan 2023
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 69 (883,195)

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Richard Beeching, Benoit Mandelbrot, power law distribution, British rail, railroads

10.

Is Homelessness Scale-Free?

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Jun 2023
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 68 (899,324)

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homelessness; Malcolm Gladwell; power law distribution; scale-free; scale-invariant

11.

How To Predict Turnout In Elections

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 16 Aug 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 68 (891,180)
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power law distribution, Vilfredo Pareto, Benoit Mandelbrot, electoral turnout

12.

Power Laws In Unions, Churches, and Street Gangs

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 63 (933,592)

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Power Law Distribution, Street Gangs, Labor Unions, Churches, Rodney Stark, Peter Turchin

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Information Cascades and the 2016 Republican Nomination: Results of a Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Applied to Popular Vote Totals

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jun 2019
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 63 (933,592)
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Donald Trump, 2016 Republican primary, information cascade, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Arthur De Vany, Pareto distribution, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

14.

Is Metallica Fractal? A Case Study

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Aug 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 62 (942,565)

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Metallica, Fractal, power law distribution, Benoit Mandelbrot

15.

Does The Fall of Sparta Support Thomas Piketty’s r > g?

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 May 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 59 (970,490)

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Vilfredo Pareto, Thomas Piketty, Sparta, Capital in the Twenty-first Century

16.

On the Size Distribution of Christian Denominations

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 58 (980,173)

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Rodney Stark, Rise of Christianity, Exponential Distribution

17.

On the Correlation Between Vote Distributions and Human Rights

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Dec 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 57 (989,921)

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power law distributions, Benoit Mandelbrot, Vilfredo Pareto, human rights, Freedom House Index

18.

'Fast Transients' and the Hurst Exponent: Evidence from the US and UK Militaries

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Apr 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 57 (989,921)

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19.

Are Law Firms Fractal?

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Oct 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 56 (1,000,027)

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fractal; U.S. legal system; Benoit Mandelbrot; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

20.

Are Presidential Primaries Stationary?

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 55 (1,010,164)

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Larry Bartels, Momentum, Cliff Asness, Benoit Mandelbrot, Eugene Fama, Stationary

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Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, power law distribution, market efficiency, Hollywood Economics, Arthur DeVany, Abdulkadiroglu

22.

How To Build A Navy

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Sep 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 51 (1,052,702)

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power law distribution, Vilfredo Pareto, Benoit Mandelbrot, Daniel Lake, U.S. Navy, People's Liberation Army Navy

23.

On the Value of Espionage

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 May 2023
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 49 (1,074,648)

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power law distribution, Pareto, fractal, espionage

24.

How Efficient Is Chicago?

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Jun 2023
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 48 (1,086,013)

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Harold Hurst, Benoit Mandelbrot

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Why the Studio System Is Gone With the Wind In Hollywood —But Not In Baseball

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 May 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 48 (1,086,013)

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Major League Baseball, Hollywood, Arthur De Vany, Benoit Mandelbrot, Vilfredo Pareto

26.

On The Number of Copies Per Title In Libraries

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 48 (1,086,013)

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Power Law Distributions, Economic Inequality, Libraries

27.

The Persistence of New Hampshire's Memory: The Hurst Exponent of Republican Voting in New Hampshire, 1828-2016

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2019
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 48 (1,086,013)

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Harold Edwin Hurst, Hurst exponent, Benoit Mandelbrot, New Hampshire, GOP

28.

The Distribution of Emails In An Organization As A Proxy for Information Flow

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 20 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 47 (1,097,529)

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Social Network, Duncan Watt, Steven Strogatz, John Boyd

29.

Are “Safe” or “Swing” Congressional Districts More Paretian?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 45 (1,121,190)

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power law distribution, Vilfredo Pareto, Benoit Mandelbrot

30.

Using Precinct Level Data to Predict Turnout: A Case Study

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Feb 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 42 (1,157,785)

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fractal, power law distribution, Benoit Mandelbrot, electoral turnout, self-similarity, election prediction

31.

Are Urban or Rural Congressional Districts More Paretian?

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 Mar 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 40 (1,183,237)

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32.

How Long Do Legislators Stay In Office?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Mar 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 38 (1,209,354)

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Legislative Tenure, Power Law Distribution, Logarithmic Distribution, Sports

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Are Power Laws Better Than Averages at Predicting Electoral Turnout? Results From Some U.S. States

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Jan 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 37 (1,222,651)

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turnout prediction, power law distribution, Vilfredo Pareto, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lewis Fry Richardson

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The “Fast Transients” of Defense Spending and the Hurst Exponent: Evidence from the War and Navy Departments 1792-1957

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Apr 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 33 (1,277,121)

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Harold Hurst, War Department, U.S. Navy, budgeting, complexity, Soviet Union

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Predicting Wisconsin: Using Power Laws To Predict Turnout in Presidential Primaries

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Dec 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 31 (1,304,549)

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power law distribution, Wisconsin, psephology, presidential primaries, voter turnout

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How Consistent Is A Precinct’s Turnout? Quantifying Precinct Memory Through Harold Hurst’s Method

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Jun 2022
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 30 (1,318,317)

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voter turnout, Harold Hurst, hydrology, Benoit Mandelbrot

37.

Sorting It Out: Mother Church and the Christian Demons

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 25 (1,385,945)

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power law distribution, Rodney Stark

38.

Infinite Space: A Study of Bicycle Distances in Zambia

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Apr 2026
DJ Lane
Northeastern Illinois University
Downloads 13 (1,518,554)

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power law distribution, Pareto Distribution, Bicycle, foraging theory