Nota, Fungisai; Song, Shunfeng - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2008
The widely-used Zipf law has two striking regularities: excellent fit and close-to-one exponent. When the exponent equals to one, the Zipf law collapses into the rank-size rule. This paper further analyzes the Zipf exponent. By changing the sample size, the truncation point, and the mix of...