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Pareto_distribution

Pareto distribution

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Noun

Pareto distribution (plural Pareto distributions)

  1. (statistics) A probability distribution such that for a random variable X with that distribution holds that the probability that X is greater than some number x is given by

    for all xxm, where xm is the (necessarily positive) minimum possible value of X, and k is a positive parameter.

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