An Evaluation of Pareto, Lognormal and PPS Distributions: The Size Distribution of Cities in Kerala, India

Authors

Christopher A. Vallabados, S.R.M. Medical College and Research Centre, Kattankulathur, IndiaFollow
Subbarayan A. Arumugam, S.R.M. University, Kattankulathur, IndiaFollow

Abstract

The Pareto-Positive Stable (PPS) distribution is introduced as a new model for describing city size data of a region in a country. The PPS distribution provides a flexible model for fitting the entire range of a set of city size data and the classical Pareto and Zipf distributions are included as a particular case.

DOI

10.22237/jmasm/1462077600