Poisson is good for events occurring at irregular intervals (say, finding somebody you'd want to hook up with), but the distribution is going to be skewed by the length of time during which a person is not looking, e.g. monogamous and in a relationship.
Also, polygamy will be overrepresented, because of the n2relationships in group of n people.
You're obviously going to have somewhat different numbers for different ages, because the count can only increase, not decrease. Whether this affects the shape of the distribution or not is another question, and one which I'm sure statistics can answer apart from any situational information.
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Date: 2008-04-08 08:21 am (UTC)Also, polygamy will be overrepresented, because of the n2relationships in group of n people.
You're obviously going to have somewhat different numbers for different ages, because the count can only increase, not decrease. Whether this affects the shape of the distribution or not is another question, and one which I'm sure statistics can answer apart from any situational information.