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Re: [ns] Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:14:55 +0800



The shape parameter in pareto determines how steep the tail would be in a
pareto distribution. You might recall that the parento distribution is
similar to a poisson distribution except that has a very long tail. shape
=1 is similar to possion. 

Shape = 3 - 2 * Hurst_parameter

Debo

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, PangBin wrote:

> Hi,
> Would you tell me what's meaning of shape parameter for Pareto ON/OFF? What is the relation between shape parameter and Hurst parameter?
> Thanks.
> PangBin
> 
>