Huang, Ding-wei - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 6, pp. 1474-1480
We present a statistical model for the distribution of Chinese names. Both family names and given names are studied on the same basis. With naive expectation, the distribution of family names can be very different from that of given names. One is affected mostly by genealogy, while the other can...