Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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974537 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
This paper studies the size distributions of urban agglomerations for India and China. We have estimated the scaling exponent for Zipf’s law with the Indian census data for the years of 1981–2001 and the Chinese census data for 1990 and 2000. Along with the biased linear fit estimate, the maximum likelihood estimate for the Pareto and Tsallis q-exponential distribution has been computed. For India, the scaling exponent is in the range of [1.88, 2.06] and for China, it is in the interval [1.82, 2.29]. The goodness-of-fit tests of the estimated distributions are performed using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov statistic.
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Authors
Kausik Gangopadhyay, B. Basu,