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Estimating the number of serial killers that were never caught
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
Many serial killers commit tens of murders. At the same time inter-murder intervals can be decades long. This suggests that some serial killers can die of an accident or a disease,…
Statistical study of time intervals between murders for serial killers
E. Yaksic, M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We study the distribution of 2,837 inter-murder intervals (cooling off periods) for 1,012 American serial killers. The distribution is smooth, following a power law in the region o…
Chess players' fame versus their merit
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We investigate a pool of international chess title holders born between 1901 and 1943. Using Elo ratings we compute for every player his expected score in a game with a randomly se…
A mathematical theory of fame
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We study empirically how the fame of WWI fighter-pilot aces, measured in numbers of web pages mentioning them, is related to their achievement, measured in numbers of opponent airc…
Stochastic modeling of a serial killer
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We analyze the time pattern of the activity of a serial killer, who during twelve years had murdered 53 people. The plot of the cumulative number of murders as a function of time i…
Theory of citing
M. V. Simkin, V. P. Roychowdhury
We present empirical data on misprints in citations to twelve high-profile papers. The great majority of misprints are identical to misprints in articles that earlier cited the sam…