title: It's distributions all the way down!: second order changes in statistical distributions also occur.
abstract: The textual, big-data literature misses Bentley et al.'s message on distributions; it largely examines the first-order effects of how a single, signature distribution can predict population behaviour, neglecting second-order effects involving distributional shifts, either between signature distributions or within a given signature distribution. Indeed, Bentley et al. themselves under-emphasise the potential richness of the latter, within-distribution effects.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. mark.keane@ucd.ie www.csi.ucd.ie/users/mark-keane.
authors.forename: Mark T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Keane
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. gerowa@tcd.ie www.scss.tcd.ie/~gerowa.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gerow
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking