Distributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variance

2003/05/22 by Fredrik Liljeros, Liljeros, Fredrik, Christofer Edling +10 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #FOS: Physical sciences #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0305528

6 pages

arxiv created 2003/05/22 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In a recent paper, James Holland Jones and Mark Handcock re-analyze two of the four datasets comprising a database, first analyzed by us, which records the number of distinct sexual partners for Swedish men and women. We argue that the claims of Jones and Handcock can be interpreted in a misleading fashion.

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