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Title: | Crowding at the front of marathon packs |
Authors: | Sabhapandit, Sanjib Majumdar, Satya N. Redner, S. |
Issue Date: | Mar-2008 |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing Ltd |
Citation: | Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008, pL03001 |
Abstract: | We study the crowding of near-extreme events in the time gaps between successive finishers in major international marathons. Naively, one might expect these gaps to become progressively larger for better-placing finishers. While such an increase does indeed occur from the middle of the finishing pack down to approximately 20th place, the gaps saturate for the first 10-20 finishers. We give a probabilistic account of this feature. However, the data suggest that the gaps have a weak maximum around the 10th place, a feature that seems to have a sociological origin. |
Description: | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4523 |
Alternative Location: | http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2008/03/L03001 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JSMTE..03L.001S |
Copyright: | 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (TP) |
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