1 The Pareto Distribution - University of Montana

2 Parameter Estimation We are interested in estimating the parameters of the Pareto distribution from which a random sample comes. We will outline a few parameter esti-mation schemes. 2.1 Method of Moments We actually modify the usual method of moments scheme according to a method laid out in Johnson and Kotz[5]. If we set the sample mean equal

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