EVOLUTION OF SURNAMES

被引：6
作者：
CONSUL, PC
机构：
来源：
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW | 1991年 / 59卷 / 03期
关键词：
BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESS; BRANCHING PROCESS; DISCRETE PARETO DISTRIBUTION; GEETA DISTRIBUTION; SURNAME DISTRIBUTION; YULE DISTRIBUTION;
D O I：
10.2307/1403687
中图分类号：
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号：
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要：
The determination of a suitable probability model to describe the distribution of surnames in various areas has been considered by many authors. In this paper a birth and death process model and a branching process model are proposed to explain the evolution of surnames. Both models give rise to the Geeta distribution which has been fitted to the actual data and the fit is compared to the fits with the discrete Pareto distribution and the Yule distribution. The three distributions have also been compared with regard to their domains of the mean and variance.
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页码：271 / 278
页数：8
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