A note on "Pareto tails and lognormal body of US cities size distribution".

Abstract Luckstead and Devadoss (2017) fitted a distribution made up of lower tail Pareto, lognormal body, and upper tail Pareto to city sizes in the US. Here, we propose a class of distributions providing better fits. The fits are assessed in terms of Akaike Information Criterion, Bayesian Information Criterion and probability plots. Highlights • A class of distributions proposed for modelling US city sizes. • The proposed class provides better fits compared to Luckstead and Devadoss (2017). • The quality of fits assessed in terms of AIC, BIC and probability plots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]