Konishi, Yoko; Nishiyama, Yoshihiko - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 79 (2009) 9, pp. 2869-2878
This note examines testing methods for Paretoness in the framework of rank-size rule regression. Rank-size rule … and Urban Economics (35) 2005, 239–263] regress log(S(i)) on log(i) and log2(i) and test the null of Paretoness by … standard t-test for the latter regressor. It is found that t-statistics take large values and the Paretoness is rejected in …