Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5059815 Economics Letters 2013 6 Pages PDF
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.
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The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail
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