The matchmaking paradox: a statistical explanation

Author

Iddo I Eliazar ¹ and Igor M Sokolov ²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Technology Management, Holon Institute of Technology, PO Box 305, Holon 58102, Israel
² Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

E-mail

eliazar@post.tau.ac.il igor.sokolov@physik.hu-berlin.de

Journal

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Create an alert RSS this journal

Issue

Volume 43, Number 5

Citation

Iddo I Eliazar and Igor M Sokolov 2010 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 055001

doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/43/5/055001

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