TY  - BOOK
AU  - GONZALEZ - VAL, Rafael
AU  - RAMOS, Arturo
AU  - SANZ - GRACIA, Fernando
TI  - The accuracy of graphs to describe size distributions
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - city size distribution
KW  - zipf plot
KW  - lognormal
N2  - This  article analyses the performance of the graphs traditionally used to study size distributions: histograms, Zipf plots (double logarithmic graphs of rank compared to size) and plotted cumulative density functions. A lognormal distribution is fitted to urban data from three countries (the United States, Spain and Italy) over all of the twentieth century. We explain the advantages and disadvantages associated with these graphic methods and derive some statistical properties
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.829187
ER  -