[ Thanks to John
Conover for this link. ]
“This site presents some personal observations on my manuscript,
“Notes on the Fractal Analysis of Various Market Segments in the
North American Electronics Industry,” which was intended for use by
those involved in strategic marketing and optimization of business
operations and process, (i.e., managing the P&L.) The
manuscript was presented in December of 1995, and is available as
fractal.ps.gz, (2MB gzip compressed Postscript,) or, fractal.pdf,
(6 MB PDF,) and fractal.tar.gz which is the Latex sources for the
700+ page document, and also includes the C Sources to the 60 some
programs used in the analysis which are available separately on the
Utilities page. The software methodology is described on the
Architecture page, and the analytical paradigm is described on the
Usage page.”
“The document itself contains some 600 diagrams and graphs along
with some 300 tables that present and compare some 90 fractal
variables for each market segment analyzed. The data for the market
segments was obtained from the US Department of Commerce and
Federal Reserve, and included every industrial sector in the US
economy for at least the 20 years prior to 1994. Additionally, the
variables were used by simulation programs to fabricate time series
that contained certain characteristics found in the the market
segments for the purpose of verifying the methodology used. The
methodology can be found on the Architecture page.”
“Although a very simple model is presented to analyze the
dynamics of the Electronic industry’s markets, there is, probably,
reasonable evidence presented that the market segments do, indeed,
have fractal characteristics….“