Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 409, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-182

  Alves, L G A ^a,c   Ribeiro, H V ^a,b,c   Lenzi, E K ^a,c   Mendes, R S ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Power laws; Urban indicators

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; ALLOMETRY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW; URBAN INDICATORS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84901261000     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.04.046     Document Type: Article

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