147979 20250110163828.0 doi 10.1111/pirs.12037 sideral 82244 ART-2015-82244 eng González-Val, R. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-2023-5726 Size Distributions for All Cities: Which One is Best? 2015 This paper analyses four statistical distributions used to describe city size distributions: lognormal, double Pareto lognormal, q‐exponential, and log‐logistic. We use un‐truncated city size data for the US, Spain and Italy from 1900 until 2010, and, in addition, the last available year for the remaining countries of the OECD. We estimate the four functions by maximum likelihood. To check the goodness of the fit we use the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov and Cramér‐von Mises tests, and compute the Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information criterion. The results show that the distribution which best fits data in most of the cases (86.76%) is the double Pareto lognormal. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 1.144 2015 ECONOMICS 125 / 341 = 0.367 2015 Q2 T2 GEOGRAPHY 42 / 77 = 0.545 2015 Q3 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 72 / 104 = 0.692 2015 Q3 T3 0.894 2015 Geography, Planning and Development 2015 Q1 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2015 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Ramos A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2618-1535 Sanz-Gracia F. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3725-0022 Vera-Cabello M. (orcid)0000-0001-8973-6804 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 94, 1 (2015), 177-197 Pap. reg. sci. Papers in Regional Science 1056-8190 436891 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147979/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1643207 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147979/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:147979 articulos driver 2025-01-10-14:24:20 ARTICLE