id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-125330-jyppul4o Crokidakis, Nuno Modeling the evolution of drinking behavior: A Statistical Physics perspective 2020-08-24 .txt text/plain 3629 218 55 The standard medical way of categorizing alcohol consumption [15] is in three groups -nonconsumers, moderate (or social) consumers and risk (or excessive) consumers; thus, modeling of the interactions and consequent changes of an individual from one group to another is governed by interaction parameters. This transition M → R can also occur spontaneously, with probability α, if a given agent increase his/her alcohol consumption -this is the only migration pathway from one group to another, in this model, that does not depend on the population of the receiving compartment, since it corresponds to a self-induced progression from Moderate (M) to Risk (R) drinking. The transitions among the compartments are ruled by probabilities, representing the social interactions among individuals, as well as spontaneous decisions, in particular from moderate evolving into risk drinkers, and we studied the model through analytical and numerical calculations. ./cache/cord-125330-jyppul4o.txt ./txt/cord-125330-jyppul4o.txt