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<pre style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span> </span></span></i></b></pre>

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seminario dal titolo:<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TradeGothicPl-CondEighteen"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“</span></b><b><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Relevance</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">”</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:TradeGothicPl-CondEighteen"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract:<span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:TradeGothicPl-CondEighteen"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The mass is a relevant variable in experiments of free
falling bodies, their colour is not. The mass enters the laws that governs how
objects fall, their colour does not. How can one identify relevant variables
when</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span style="background:white">data is
scarce and high dimensional and the laws that govern the phenomena under study
are unknown?</span></span> <span style="background:white">In order to address
this question, I will first argue that relevance can be quantified
unambiguously in information theoretic terms, on the basis of a data alone.</span>
<span style="background:white">Samples with maximal relevance, i.e. those which
are mostly informative about the generative process, exhibit power law
distributions, suggesting a possible origin for the ubiquitous observation of
such distributions. In addition, this opens the way to model free approaches to
extract relevant information from high dimensional datasets. This will be
illustrated in the cases of protein sequences and multi-electrode arrays
recording of neural activity.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p>

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</span><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Valeria Giuliani</div><div>Scuola Normale Superiore</div><div>Servizio alla Didattica e Allievi</div><div>tel. 050 509260</div><div>Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7</div><div>56126 Pisa</div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:valeria.giuliani@sns.it" target="_blank">valeria.giuliani@sns.it</a></div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:classi@sns.it" target="_blank">classi@sns.it</a></div></div></div></div>
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