Empirical Power and Scaling laws of Quito, Guayaquil and other cities in Ecuador

<p>Several papers have shown that distributions characterized by mean and variance are inappropriate for accounting spatial or geographic patterns. The reason is data is not accumulated around a central value; rather, tails become heavy and extreme events result less unlikely than under other...

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Main Authors: Felipe Vaca Ramírez, Bolívar Morales Oñate, Carlos Jiménez Mosquera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ 2015-05-01
Series:ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías
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Online Access:http://revistas.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/avances/article/view/219