Pareto distribution
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Vilfredo Pareto.
Noun
[edit]Pareto distribution (plural Pareto distributions)
- (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 x ≥ xm, where xm is the (necessarily positive) minimum possible value of X, and k is a positive parameter.
Translations
[edit]probability distribution
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