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Statistical description of human addiction phenomena

Authors :
Toscani, Giuseppe
Publication Year :
2019

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.<br />Comment: 16 pages

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1909.13650
Document Type :
Working Paper