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Statistics for Process Control Engineers
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Statistics for Process Control Engineers

by Myke King
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
17h 24m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 23Pareto Distribution

There are four types of Pareto distribution. Originally developed for exploring the distribution of wealth, they lead to Pareto analysis and to the Pareto principle, or ‘80/20 rule’, familiar to many engineers.

23.1 Pareto Type I

The Pareto‐I distribution is described by the PDF

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The shape parameter δ is sometimes described as the tail index; β is the minimum nonzero value that x can have. Figure 23.1 shows the effect of changing these parameters.

x vs. f(x) displaying 3 right-skewed curves for ϐ = 0.5 and δ = 0.6, ϐ = 0.3 and δ = 0.3, and ϐ = 0.1 and δ = 0.1.

Figure 23.1 Pareto‐I: Effect of β and δ on shape

The CDF is

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The QF is

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The moments are given by

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From this can be derived

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One application is to assess the ...

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ISBN: 9781119383505