The Pareto-positive stable distribution: A new descriptive model for city size data

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4179-4191

  Sarabia, José María ^a   Prieto, Faustino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

City size; Lognormal distribution; Pareto distribution; Positive stable law; Tsallis distribution

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

CITY SIZES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; POSITIVE STABLE; TSALLIS DISTRIBUTIONS;

PARETO PRINCIPLE;

EID: 67650111619     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.047     Document Type: Article

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