Extremal events dictate population growth rate inference

• Trevor GrandPre ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Trevor GrandPre, Ethan Levien

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, Northwestern University and The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3565-6873

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• Ethan Levien ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Trevor GrandPre, Ethan Levien

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampsire, ‌‌United States of America

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• Ariel Amir

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ariel.amir@weizmann.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,‌‌ Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2611-0139

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