City size distributions for India and China

被引：62

作者：

Gangopadhyay, Kausik ^{[2
]}

Basu, B. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Indian Stat Inst, Phys & Appl Math Unit, Kolkata 700108, India

[2] Indian Stat Inst, Econ Res Unit, Kolkata 700108, India

来源：

PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS | 2009年 / 388卷 / 13期

关键词：

City size; Statistical distribution; Scaling exponent; POWER LAWS; REGULARITIES; GROWTH;

D O I：

10.1016/j.physa.2009.03.019

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

This paper studies the size distributions of urban agglomerations for India and China. We have estimated the scaling exponent for Zipf's law with the Indian census data for the years of 1981-2001 and the Chinese census data for 1990 and 2000. Along with the biased linear fit estimate, the maximum likelihood estimate for the Pareto and Tsallis q-exponential distribution has been computed. For India, the scaling exponent is in the range of [1.88, 2.06] and for China, it is in the interval [1.82, 2.29]. The goodness-of-fit tests of the estimated distributions are performed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：2682 / 2688

页数：7

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