Nota, Fungisai; Song, Shunfeng - In: Journal of urban management 1 (2012) 2, pp. 19-31
Zipf's law has two striking regularities: excellent fit and an exponent close to 1.0. When the exponent equals 1.0, Zipf's law collapses into the rank-size rule. This paper alters the sample size, the truncation point, and the mix of cities in the sample to analyze the Zipf exponent. Our results...