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

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.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bee, Marco ; Riccaboni, Massimo ; Schiavo, Stefano
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 120.2013, 2, p. 232-237
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	City size distribution \| Zipf distribution \| Power-law \| Lognormal distribution \| Maximum entropy

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; D30 - Distribution. General ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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