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The Pareto distribution is a power distribution which was initially invented to describe the distribution of income but has found application in many other areas.

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How to get Pareto IV parameter estimates

First install package VGAM. After instalation, use library command to load it. Then fit and estimate like this: > library(VGAM) > #Generating a sample data > pdata <- data.frame(y = rparetoIV(2000, s …
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Fitting data in a generalized Pareto distribution and parameter estimation

In addition to the package gPdtest that COOLSerdash mentioned, you can also use function pargpa in package lmomco. Here, the L-moments of data are applied to estimate the parameters. Here is an exampl …
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