The city as a giant component: A random graph approach to Zipf's law

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 717-720

  Kali, Raja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL METHOD; LOCATION DECISION; METHODOLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344983370     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485032000139006     Document Type: Article

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