Can cell cycle period and sea clutter radio returns 
be modeled by the same distribution? 
--- A Journey through non-Gaussian statistics 
 
Jianbo Gao and Jing Hu

Abs: 

Half of this talk is tutorial about non-Gaussian statistics, 
including topics on stable laws, Levy processes, Tsallis 
non-extensive entropy formalism, and Tsallis distribution. 
Another half of the talk is to apply Tsallis distribution 
to two distinctly different problems --- modeling of cell 
cycle period and sea clutter radar return data. We will
present some excellent results. We shall also make some 
speculations as how these non-Gaussian statistics might be 
applied to many areas in electrical engineering, including 
wireless networks, sensor networks, non-Gaussian communications 
channels, etc.