Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution

Jeff Luckstead; Stephen Devadoss

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.08.061

Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution

Jeff Luckstead, Stephen Devadoss

Agricultural and Applied Economics

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Abstract

We consider a distribution, which consists of lower tail Pareto, lognormal body, and upper tail Pareto, to estimate the size distribution of all US cities. This distribution fits the data more accurately than a distribution that comprises of only lognormal and the upper tail Pareto.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	573-578
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2016.08.061
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

Keywords

Lognormal
Lower tail
US cities
Upper tail

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