2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/228433Under the Ansatz that the occupation times of a system with finitely many states are given by the Gibbs distribution, an effective temperature is uniquely determined (up to a choice of scale), and may be computed de novo, without any reference to a Hamiltonian for empirically accessible systems. As an example, the calculation of the effective temperature for a classical Bose gas is outlined and applied to the analysis of computer network traffic.9 pages, 10 figuresStatistical Mechanicstext