Percolation model for growth rates of aggregates and its application for business firm growth

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Fu, Dongfeng ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^b   Salinger, Michael A ^c,d   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GROWTH RATES; MODEL PARAMETERS; PERCOLATION MODEL; STEADY STATE DISTRIBUTION;

PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE);

EID: 33749244946     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.036118     Document Type: Article

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