Re: Pareto Distribution

[Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>]

Yes, we should adopt the conventions from a standard reference book --
the existing functions are drawn from a variety of sources, mostly
Devroye's book on Random Variates (which is public domain, but not
available electronically unfortunately).  Maybe the three volumes of
Johnson & Kotz on Univariate Distributions would do, for
example. Patches are welcome from anyone who wants sort this out.

Keith Briggs writes:
 > > I see now, the html output for the math sections has gone wrong.  
 > > I have regenerated the files with a better version of texi2html and
 > > uploaded them to the website. Thanks.
 > 
 > OK, thanks for fixing.
 > Another thing to think about: some of the other distributions
 > have a argument `mu' to the C function which is a parameter
 > which is not the mean.   This is non-standard and confusing.
 > (Also, in the Pareto function, `a' is normally called beta,
 > `b' is normally called alpha.)
 > 
 > Keith
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