It is said that a random variable X has the Pareto distribution with parameters x0 and

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It is said that a random variable X has the Pareto distribution with parameters x0 and α (x0 > 0 and α > 0) if X has a continuous distribution for which the p.d.f. f (x|x0, α) is as follows:
It is said that a random variable X has the

Show that if X has this Pareto distribution, then the random variable log(X/x0) has the exponential distribution with parameter α.

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Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9780321500465

4th Edition

Authors: Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish

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