This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A positive random variable X whose mean exists, has a Pareto distribution if, and only if, $E(X \mid X > x ...

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This paper focuses on modeling and estimating tail parameters of loss distributions from Taiwanese commercial fire loss severity. Using extreme value theory, we employ the generalized Pareto ...

In 1906, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto made the famous observation that 20% of the population owned 80% of the property in Italy, later generalised by Joseph M. Juran and others into the so-called ...