Multi-fractal measures of city-size distributions based on the three-parameter Zipf model

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 793-805

  Chen, Yanguang ^a   Zhou, Yixing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

FRACTAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-FRACTAL MEASURES; SPATIAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FRACTALS;

EID: 2442563863     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2004.02.059     Document Type: Article

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