In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution, it is clear what the parameters are for the pareto distribution: *xmin *the scale parameter and *a* the shape parameter.
I am using rmutil to generate random deviates from a pareto distribution. It says in the documentation that the probabilty density of the pareto distribution The Pareto distribution has density f(y) = s (1 + y/(m (s-1)))^(-s-1)/(m (s-1)) where m is the mean parameter of the distribution and s is the dispersion Through my experimentation of using rpareto function from the library using m as the scale parameter *xmin* value and s as the shape parameter* a* , I found that the deviates generated are not all larger than *xmin*. This leads me to believe that m and s are not the shape and scale parameter respectively. What is m and s? Could it be defined as the mean and variance respectively as shown on the wikipedia link? Yours sincerely, Justin *I check my email at 9AM and 4PM everyday* *If you have an EMERGENCY, contact me at +447938674419(UK) or +60125056192(Malaysia)* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.