Gangopadhyay, Kausik; Basu, B. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 13, pp. 2682-2688
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...