FROM LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION TO POWER LAW: A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF THE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS

Lucien Benguigui and Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal
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Lucien Benguigui: Solid State Institute and Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 32000, Haifa, Israel
Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal: Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 32000, Haifa, Israel

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2006, vol. 17, issue 10, 1429-1436

Abstract: We propose a new classification of the size distributions of entities based on an exponent α defined from the shape of the log–log Rank Size plot. From an inspection of a large number of cases in different fields, one finds three possibilities:α = 1giving a power law,α > 1(parabola like curve) and0

Keywords: Size; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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