A note on “The distribution of union size: Canada, 1913–2014”

Idika E. Okorie and Saralees Nadarajah

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2021, vol. 570, issue C

Abstract: Campolieti (2020) modelled the number of members in different unions (union size) in different decades in Canada using the power-law, lognormal and stretched exponential distributions. Here, we show that the generalized Pareto distribution (which has the same number of parameters as the power-law, lognormal and stretched exponential distributions) can provide better fits for the data.

Keywords: Generalized Pareto distribution; Lognormal distribution; Power-law distribution; Stretched exponential distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.125786

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