Characteristics of population distributions in municipalities

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Sasaki, Yo ^a   Kuninaka, Hiroto ^a   Kobayashi, Naoki ^b   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Lognormal distribution; Population; Power law distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547441003     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.76.074801     Document Type: Article

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