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

Christofer R. Edling; Fredrik Liljeros; H. Eugene Stanley; Luis A. Nunes Amaral; Y. Aberg

arxiv: cond-mat/0305528 · v1 · submitted 2003-05-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn · cond-mat.stat-mech

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

Fredrik Liljeros , Christofer R. Edling , H. Eugene Stanley , Y. Aberg , Luis A. Nunes Amaral This is my paper

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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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