Dynamics of social group competition: Modeling the decline of religious affiliation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Abrams, Daniel M ^a   Yaple, Haley A ^a   Wiener, Richard J ^b,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL PREDICTION; CONTINUOUS SYSTEM; DATA SETS; GENERALIZED SYSTEMS; LIMITING CASE; REAL WORLD DATA; SHIFT-AND; SOCIAL GROUPS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

FORECASTING; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84860390285     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.088701     Document Type: Article

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