Power-law distribution of family names in Japanese societies

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 282-288

  Miyazima, Sasuke ^a   Lee, Youngki ^b   Nagamine, Tomomasa ^a   Miyajima, Hiroaki ^c  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SCALING;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 0033906952     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00546-4     Document Type: Article

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