fit_US_cities

A dataset containing 52 distribution fits to the US Census 2000 city size distributions

datasets

A library of density, distribution function, quantile function, (bounded) raw moments and random generation for a collection of distributions relevant for the firm size literature. Additionally, the package contains tools to fit these distributions using maximum likelihood and evaluate these distributions based on (i) log-likelihood ratio and (ii) deviations between the empirical and parametrically implied moments of the distributions. We add flexibility by allowing the considered distributions to be combined into piecewise composite or finite mixture distributions, as well as to be used when truncated. See Dewitte (2020) <https://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8644700> for a description and application of methods available in this package.

Ruben Dewitte

distributionsrd

Distribution Fitting and Evaluation

fit_US_cities function

A data frame with 52 rows and 7 variables:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>dist</dt><dd>distribution</dd>
 <dt>components</dt><dd>number of components</dd>
 <dt>prior</dt><dd>list of prior weights for the individual distribution components of FMM</dd>
 <dt>coefficients</dt><dd>list of coefficients for the distributions</dd>
 <dt>np</dt><dd>Number of paramters</dd>
 <dt>n</dt><dd>Number of observations</dd>
 <dt>convergence</dt><dd>Logical indicating whether the fitting procedure converged</dd>
</dl>

Format

Fitted distributions to the US Census 2000 city size distribution. — fit_US_cities

A data frame with 52 rows and 7 variables:<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>dist</dt><dd>distribution</dd>
 <dt>components</dt><dd>number of components</dd>
 <dt>prior</dt><dd>list of prior weights for the individual distribution components of FMM</dd>
 <dt>coefficients</dt><dd>list of coefficients for the distributions</dd>
 <dt>np</dt><dd>Number of paramters</dd>
 <dt>n</dt><dd>Number of observations</dd>
 <dt>convergence</dt><dd>Logical indicating whether the fitting procedure converged</dd>
</dl>

fit_US_cities: Fitted distributions to the US Census 2000 city size distribution.

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