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English
Etymology
Named after Vilfredo Pareto.
Noun
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.
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