Nishiyama, Yoshihiko; Osada, Susumu; Sato, Yasuhiro - In: Journal of Regional Science 48 (2008) 4, pp. 691-716
The rank-size rule and Zipf's law for city sizes have been traditionally examined by means of OLS estimation and the "t" test. This paper studies the accurate and approximate properties of the OLS estimator and obtains the distribution of the "t" statistic under the assumption of Zipf's law...