Bee, Marco and Riccaboni, Massimo and Schiavo, Stefano The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail. Economics Letters, 120 (2). 232 - 237. ISSN 0165-1765 (2013)
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Abstract
Abstract We question the claim that the largest {US} cities are Pareto distributed. We show that results of multiple tests on real data are similar to those obtained when the true distribution is lognormal, and largely depend on sample sizes.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.035 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | JEL classification: C14; D30; R12; R23 - Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution; Maximum entropy |
| Subjects: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F001 United States local history H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Ms T. Iannizzi |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2013 08:44 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2013 08:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/1652 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit Item |
