Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators

@article{Alves2014EmpiricalAO,
  title={Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators},
  author={Luiz G. A. Alves and Haroldo V. Ribeiro and Ervin Kaminski Lenzi and Renio S. Mendes},
  journal={Physica A-statistical Mechanics and Its Applications},
  year={2014},
  volume={409},
  pages={175-182}
}
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