Cabrera-Arnau, C;
Bishop, SR;
(2020)
The effect of dragon-kings on the estimation of scaling law parameters.
Scientific Reports
, 10
, Article 20226. 10.1038/s41598-020-77232-6.
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Abstract
Scaling laws are used to model how diferent quantifable properties of cities, such as the number of road trafc accidents or average house prices, vary as a function of city population size, with parameters estimated from data. Arcaute et al. raised the issue of whether specifc cities with extremely large population sizes, known as dragon-kings, should be considered separately from other smaller cities when estimating the scaling law parameters since the two types of cities tend to display diferent behaviour. Through the analysis of randomly generated samples, we fnd that the inclusion of dragon-kings in the scaling analysis does not afect the estimated values for the parameters but only provided that all the data points satisfy the same scaling law. We also analyse randomly generated samples where data corresponding to a particular city deviates from the scaling law followed by the rest of the cities. We then show that deviations corresponding to dragon-king cities have the most signifcant efect on the estimated values of the scaling parameters. The extent of this efect also depends on which estimation procedure is used. Our results have important implications on the suitability of scaling laws as a model for urban systems.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The effect of dragon-kings on the estimation of scaling law parameters |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-77232-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77232-6 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118432 |
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