The individual success of musicians, like that of physicists, follows a stretched exponential distribution

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 445-447

  Davies, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

01.30. y Physics literature and publications; 43.75.+a Music and musical instruments; 87.23. n Ecology and evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043142567     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2002-00176-y     Document Type: Article

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