The size distribution of cities in a region: an evaluation of Pareto, lognormal and PPS distributions

DOI10.12732/IJPAM.V92I2.9MaRDI QIDQ5166350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Christopher Amalraj, A. Subbarayan, S. Balamuralitharan

Publication date 26 June 2014

Published in International Journal of Pure and Apllied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL http://www.ijpam.eu/contents/2014-92-2/9/index.html

zbMATH Keywords

city-size distributionPareto distributionPareto positive stable law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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