000136006 001__ 136006 000136006 005__ 20260113074028.0 000136006 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1016/j.physa.2024.129818 000136006 0248_ $$2sideral$$a138955 000136006 037__ $$aART-2024-138955 000136006 041__ $$aeng 000136006 100__ $$aBancescu, Irina 000136006 245__ $$aOn the parametric description of log-growth rates of Romanian city sizes 000136006 260__ $$c2024 000136006 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000136006 5203_ $$aWe consider log-growth rates of Romanian cities’ populations for all cities in the country in the period 1992-2019 on an annual basis. We construct annual, quinquennial and decennial log-growth rates and fit to them thirty-one different statistical distributions. The best results with Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Cramér–von Mises and Anderson–Darling statistics are obtained by a mixture of five stretched Gaussian distributions (5sG) with some fixed parameters, and with the AIC, BIC, HQC information criteria are obtained with mixtures of three logistic distributions (3L), that may have or may have not exponential tails. Just as an illustration, we propose a generating stochastic mechanism for the 3L. Dedicated to Laura Andrés Alcalde 000136006 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S39-20R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-112773GB-I00 000136006 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 000136006 590__ $$a3.1$$b2024 000136006 592__ $$a0.669$$b2024 000136006 591__ $$aPHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY$$b32 / 114 = 0.281$$c2024$$dQ2$$eT1 000136006 593__ $$aCondensed Matter Physics$$c2024$$dQ2 000136006 593__ $$aStatistics and Probability$$c2024$$dQ2 000136006 593__ $$aStatistical and Nonlinear Physics$$c2024$$dQ2 000136006 594__ $$a6.2$$b2024 000136006 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000136006 700__ $$aChivu, Luminita 000136006 700__ $$aMassing, Till 000136006 700__ $$aPreda, Vasile 000136006 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-9728-668X$$aPuente-Ajovín, Miguel$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000136006 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2618-1535$$aRamos, Arturo$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000136006 7102_ $$14000$$2415$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Análisis Económico$$cÁrea Fund. Análisis Económico 000136006 773__ $$g643 (2024), 129818 [14 pp.]$$pPhysica, A$$tPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications$$x0378-4371 000136006 8564_ $$s459641$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136006/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-05-13 000136006 8564_ $$s1585231$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136006/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-05-13 000136006 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:136006$$particulos$$pdriver 000136006 951__ $$a2026-01-12-13:17:23 000136006 980__ $$aARTICLE