Université de Fribourg

Empirical analysis on temporal statistics of human correspondence patterns

Li, Nan-Nan ; Zhang, Ning ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, no. 25, p. 6391-6394

Recently, extensive empirical evidence shows that the timing of human behaviors obeys non-Possion statistics with heavy-tailed interevent time distribution. In this paper, we empirically study the correspondence pattern of a great Chinese scientist, named Hsue-Shen Tsien. Both the interevent time distribution and response time distributions deviate from the Poisson statistics, showing an...