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Theory of Zipf's Law and Beyond
Malevergne, Yannick; Saichev, Alex; Sornette, Didier
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Paperback. This book presents a general theoretical derivation of Zipf's law, providing a synthesis and extension of previous approaches. It also offers a classification of the mechanisms responsible for deviations from Zipf's law. Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Num Pages: 183 pages, 44 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCBM; KCZ; PBT; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
Zipf’s law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of cities and of rms (with additional examples found in many other scienti c elds) are power laws with a speci c exponent: the number of cities and rms with a size greater thanS is inversely proportional toS. Most explanations start with Gibrat’s law of proportional growth but need to incorporate additional constraints and ingredients introducing deviations from it. Here, we present a general theoretical derivation of Zipf’s law, providing a synthesis and extension of previous approaches. ... Read more
Zipf’s law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of cities and of rms (with additional examples found in many other scienti c elds) are power laws with a speci c exponent: the number of cities and rms with a size greater thanS is inversely proportional toS. Most explanations start with Gibrat’s law of proportional growth but need to incorporate additional constraints and ingredients introducing deviations from it. Here, we present a general theoretical derivation of Zipf’s law, providing a synthesis and extension of previous approaches. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642029455
SKU
V9783642029455
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