Zipf's Law for U.S. Cities

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Uploaded by on Jul 10, 2009

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ZipfsLawForUSCities/

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Zipf's law implies that a log-log plot of the rank-size distribution will be a straight line with a slope of negative one. A linear regression shows that the best fit to Zipf's law is found when close to 150 metropolitan areas are included.

Contributed by: Fiona Maclachlan

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  • what does "rank" mean in this example?

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