کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5062452 1371865 2006 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Is the Zipf law spurious in explaining city-size distributions?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Is the Zipf law spurious in explaining city-size distributions?
چکیده انگلیسی

The Zipf law, which states that that the rank associated with some size S is proportional to S to some negative power, is a regularity observed in natural and social sciences. One popular application of the Zipf law is the relationship between city sizes and their ranks. This paper examines the rank-size relationship through Monte Carlo simulations and two examples. We show that a good fit (indicated by a high R2 value) can be found for many statistical distributions. The Zipf law's good fit is a statistical phenomenon, and therefore, it does not require an economic theory that determines city-size distributions.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics Letters - Volume 92, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 256-262
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