Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution

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2017

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We consider a distribution, which consists of lower tail Pareto, lognormal body, and upper tail Pareto, to estimate the size distribution of all US cities. This distribution fits the data more accurately than a distribution that comprises of only lognormal and the upper tail Pareto.

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Lognormal, Lower tail, Upper tail, US cities

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Luckstead, J., & Devadoss, S.. 2017. Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2016.08.061

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2016.08.061
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