Complex systems and Biological physics seminar [before December 2013]

Family name distributions: Master equation approach

by Beom Jun Kim (KTH Computational Biology)

Europe/Stockholm
RB 35

RB 35

Description
Although cumulative family name distributions in many countries exhibit power-law forms, there also exist counterexamples. The origin of different family name distributions across countries is discussed analytically in the framework of a population dynamics model. Combined with empirical observations made, it is suggested that those differences in distributions are closely related to the rate of appearance of new family names.