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The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail

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)

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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: https://doi.org/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

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