TY  - JOUR
EP  -  237
AV  - none
SP  - 232 
IS  - 2
N2  - 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. 
VL  - 120
TI  - The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail 
A1  - Bee, Marco
A1  - Riccaboni, Massimo
A1  - Schiavo, Stefano
KW  - JEL classification: C14; D30; R12; R23  -   Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution;
    Maximum entropy
PB  - Elsevier
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513002139
SN  - 0165-1765
JF  - Economics Letters
ID  - eprints1652
Y1  - 2013/08//
ER  -