rank-size rule — the size of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank i.e. the second largest city is half the size of the largest etc. If the largest city is much larger than all others, primacy exists. If two cities are broadly similar and larger… … Geography glossary
Rank-size distribution — or the rank size rule (or law) describes the remarkable regularity in many phenomena including the distribution of city sizes around the world, sizes of businesses, particle sizes (such as sand), lengths of rivers, frequencies of word usage,… … Wikipedia
Cope's rule — states that population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time.[1] While the rule has been demonstrated in many instances, it does not hold true at all taxonomic levels, or in all clades. Larger body size is associated with… … Wikipedia
Military rank — This article is about the military use of the term rank. For other uses, see Rank (disambiguation). Warfare Military history Eras Prehistoric … Wikipedia
Sample size determination — is the act of choosing the number of observations to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample. In practice, the sample … Wikipedia
Korea under Japanese rule — (Chōsen (Korea), Empire of Japan) 日本統治時代の朝鮮(大日本帝国朝鮮) 일제 강점기 (日帝强占期) Japanese colony … Wikipedia
Primate city — A primate city is the leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy.[1] A primate city distribution has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns, and no intermediate… … Wikipedia
primacy — when the primate city is overly large compared to the size expected according to the rank size rule … Geography glossary
Zipf, G.K. — author of the rank size rule … Geography glossary
List of statistics topics — Please add any Wikipedia articles related to statistics that are not already on this list.The Related changes link in the margin of this page (below search) leads to a list of the most recent changes to the articles listed below. To see the most… … Wikipedia
