data on British income taxes in his Cours d'économie politique indicates approximately 20% of the population had about 80% of the income..

One of the simplest characterizations of the Pareto distribution, when used to model the distribution of incomes, says that the proportion of the population whose income exceeds any positive number x > x_m is

where x_m is a positive number, the minimum of the support of this probability distribution (the

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