Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5059815 | Economics Letters | 2013 | 6 Pages |
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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Authors
Marco Bee, Massimo Riccaboni, Stefano Schiavo,