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dc.contributor.author | Sabhapandit, Sanjib | - |
dc.contributor.author | Majumdar, Satya N. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Redner, S. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-24T03:47:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-05-24T03:47:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008-03 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008, pL03001 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4523 | - |
dc.description | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) | en |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing Ltd | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1702 | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2008/03/L03001 | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JSMTE..03L.001S | en |
dc.rights | 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd | en |
dc.title | Crowding at the front of marathon packs | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
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