Distributions of number of sexual partnerships have power law decaying tails and finite variance

Abstract

In a recent paper, James Holland Jones and Mark Handcock re-analyze two of the four datasets comprising a database, first analyzed by us, which records the number of distinct sexual partners for Swedish men and women. We argue that the claims of Jones and Handcock can be interpreted in a misleading fashion.

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