The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail

Marco Bee, Massimo Riccaboni () and Stefano Schiavo

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 2, 232-237

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.

Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution; Maximum entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D30 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.035

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