Abstract
The mass and the size distributions of plant seeds are very similar to the multi-component Erlang distribution of final-state particle multiplicities in high-energy collisions. We study the mass, length, width, and thickness distributions of pumpkin and marrow squash seeds in this paper. The corresponding distribution curves are obtained and fitted by using the multi-component Erlang distribution. In the comparison, the method of χ2-testing is used. The mass and the size distributions of the mentioned seeds are shown to obey approximately the multi-component Erlang distribution with the component number being 1.
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Fan, SH., Wei, HR. Multi-component Erlang distribution of plant seed masses and sizes. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 61, 1918–1921 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.61.1918
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