Sarabia, José María; Prieto, Faustino - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 19, pp. 4179-4191
The Pareto-positive stable (PPS) distribution is introduced as a new model for describing city size data in a country. The PPS distribution provides a flexible model for fitting the entire range of a set of city size data, where zero and unimodality are possible, and the classical Pareto and...