On the distribution of family names

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 319, Issue , 2003, Pages 579-590

  Reed, William J ^a   Hughes, Barry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Log periodic oscillations; Power law distributions; Random processes; Social dynamics

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SOCIAL DYNAMICS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 0037365592     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01455-3     Document Type: Article

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