[R] Fitting Pareto distribution to some data

[Paul Smith]

On 9/4/06, William Asquith <wasquith at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Package lmomco fits generalized pareto (three parameter) using method
> of L-moments.  I suspect that other packages that Brian identified
> use method of moments or other.

That is excellent to learn that, William. Thanks.

Paul


> On Sep 3, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am trying to fit Pareto distribution to some data. MASS package does
> > not support Pareto distribution. Is there some alternative way?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
> >
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