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

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2013
Volume: 120
Issue: 2
Pages: 232-237

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

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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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:120:y:2013:i:2:p:232-237
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
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2026-01-24