- Tytuł:
- Does Zipfs law hold for Polish cities?
- Autorzy:
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Cieślik, Andrzej
Teresiński, Jan - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2040370.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2017-02-10
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych
- Tematy:
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Zipf's law
rank-size rule
city size distribution
Polska - Opis:
- In this paper we study Zipf's law, which postulates that the product of a city's population and its rank (the number of cities with a larger or equal population) is constant for every city in a given region. We show that the empirical literature indicates that the law may not always hold, although its general form, the rank-size rule, could be a good first approximation of city size distribution. We perform our own empirical analysis of the distribution of the population of polish cities on the largest possible sample to find that Zipf's law is rejected for poland as the city sizes are less evenly distributed than it predicts.
- Źródło:
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Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development; 2016, 20, 4; 5-10
0867-6046
2084-6118 - Pojawia się w:
- Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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