pareto(self, a, size=None, chunks='auto', **kwargs)
This docstring was copied from numpy.random.mtrand.RandomState.pareto.
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The Lomax or Pareto II distribution is a shifted Pareto distribution. The classical Pareto distribution can be obtained from the Lomax distribution by adding 1 and multiplying by the scale parameter m
(see Notes). The smallest value of the Lomax distribution is zero while for the classical Pareto distribution it is mu
, where the standard Pareto distribution has location mu = 1
. Lomax can also be considered as a simplified version of the Generalized Pareto distribution (available in SciPy), with the scale set to one and the location set to zero.
The Pareto distribution must be greater than zero, and is unbounded above. It is also known as the "80-20 rule". In this distribution, 80 percent of the weights are in the lowest 20 percent of the range, while the other 20 percent fill the remaining 80 percent of the range.
New code should use the pareto
method of a default_rng()
instance instead; please see the :None:ref:`random-quick-start`.
The probability density for the Pareto distribution is
$$p(x) = \frac{am^a}{x^{a+1}}$$where $a$ is the shape and $m$ the scale.
The Pareto distribution, named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, is a power law probability distribution useful in many real world problems. Outside the field of economics it is generally referred to as the Bradford distribution. Pareto developed the distribution to describe the distribution of wealth in an economy. It has also found use in insurance, web page access statistics, oil field sizes, and many other problems, including the download frequency for projects in Sourceforge . It is one of the so-called "fat-tailed" distributions.
Shape of the distribution. Must be positive.
Output shape. If the given shape is, e.g., (m, n, k)
, then m * n * k
samples are drawn. If size is None
(default), a single value is returned if a
is a scalar. Otherwise, np.array(a).size
samples are drawn.
Drawn samples from the parameterized Pareto distribution.
Draw samples from a Pareto II or Lomax distribution with specified shape.
Generator.pareto
which should be used for new code.
scipy.stats.genpareto
probability density function, distribution or cumulative density function, etc.
scipy.stats.lomax
probability density function, distribution or cumulative density function, etc.
Draw samples from the distribution:
This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution>>> a, m = 3., 2. # shape and mode # doctest: +SKIP
... s = (np.random.pareto(a, 1000) + 1) * m # doctest: +SKIP
Display the histogram of the samples, along with the probability density function:
This example is valid syntax, but we were not able to check execution>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # doctest: +SKIPSee :
... count, bins, _ = plt.hist(s, 100, density=True) # doctest: +SKIP
... fit = a*m**a / bins**(a+1) # doctest: +SKIP
... plt.plot(bins, max(count)*fit/max(fit), linewidth=2, color='r') # doctest: +SKIP
... plt.show() # doctest: +SKIP
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