Analyses of baby name popularity distribution in U.S. for the last 131 years

Complexity

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Li, Wentian ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta rank function; Power law; Statistics; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866160740     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.21409     Document Type: Article

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