The Power Law Distribution of Agricultural Land Size

This paper demonstrates that the distribution of county level agricultural land size in the United States is best described by a power-law distribution, a distribution that displays extremely heavy tails. This indicates that the majority of farmland exists in the upper tail. Our analysis indicates t...

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Main Author: Chamberlain, Lauren
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@USU 2018
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7400
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8519&context=etd