Size distribution of U.S. lower tail cities
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The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.09.077