Pareto Tails and Lognormal Body of U.S. Cities Size Distribution

Jeff Luckstead; Stephen Devadoss

Pareto Tails and Lognormal Body of U.S. Cities Size Distribution

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
Journal	Physica
State	Published - Aug 2016

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