Allometric scaling of countries

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4887-4896

  Zhang, Jiang ^a   Yu, Tongkui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allometry; Macro economy; Power law relation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALLOMETRIC SCALING; ALLOMETRY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS; MACRO ECONOMY; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; OIL CONSUMPTION; POWER LAW RELATION; URBAN SYSTEMS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 77956171499     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.06.059     Document Type: Article

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