Statistical description of human addiction phenomena
Physics and Society
2019-10-01 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study the evolution in time of the statistical distribution of some addiction phenomena in a system of individuals. The kinetic approach leads to build up a novel class of Fokker--Planck equations describing relaxation of the probability density solution towards a generalized Gamma density. A qualitative analysis reveals that the relaxation process is very stable, and does not depend on the parameters that measure the main microscopic features of the addiction phenomenon.
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@article{arxiv.1909.13650,
title = {Statistical description of human addiction phenomena},
author = {Giuseppe Toscani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13650},
year = {2019}
}
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16 pages