Spurious Zipf's Law

This paper shows that the acceptance of the Zipf's Law may sometimes be the result of a spurious artifact. By way of some Monte Carlo exercises we provide evidence in favour of the fact that the Zipf's law can be spuriously accepted when the variable being studied is generated by a random distribution. This result is explained by taking account the, so-called, spurious detrending problem.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Candeal, Juan-Carlos ; Montañés, Antonio ; Olloqui, Irene
Publisher:	Louvain-la-Neuve : European Regional Science Association (ERSA)

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Series:	43rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Peripheries, Centres, and Spatial Development in the New Europe", 27th - 30th August 2003, Jyväskylä, Finland
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Conference Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/115939 [Handle] RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ERSA03p67 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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