In statistics, a multivariate Pareto distribution is a multivariate extension of a univariate Pareto distribution.
There are several different types of univariate Pareto distributions including Pareto Types IâÂÂIV and FellerâÂÂPareto. Multivariate Pareto distributions have been defined for many of these types.
Mardia (1962) defined a bivariate distribution with cumulative distribution function (CDF) given by
and joint density function
The marginal distributions are Pareto Type 1 with density functions
The means and variances of the marginal distributions are
and for a > 2, X<sub>1</sub> and X<sub>2</sub> are positively correlated with
Arnold suggests representing the bivariate Pareto Type I complementary CDF by
If the location and scale parameter are allowed to differ, the complementary CDF is
which has Pareto Type II univariate marginal distributions. This distribution is called a multivariate Pareto distribution of type II by Arnold. (This definition is not equivalent to Mardia's bivariate Pareto distribution of the second kind.)
For a > 1, the marginal means are
while for a > 2, the variances, covariance, and correlation are the same as for multivariate Pareto of the first kind.
Mardia's Multivariate Pareto distribution of the First Kind has the joint probability density function given by
The marginal distributions have the same form as (1), and the one-dimensional marginal distributions have a Pareto Type I distribution. The complementary CDF is
The marginal means and variances are given by
If a > 2 the covariances and correlations are positive with
Arnold suggests representing the multivariate Pareto Type I complementary CDF by
If the location and scale parameter are allowed to differ, the complementary CDF is
which has marginal distributions of the same type (3) and Pareto Type II univariate marginal distributions. This distribution is called a multivariate Pareto distribution of type II by Arnold.
For a > 1, the marginal means are
while for a > 2, the variances, covariances, and correlations are the same as for multivariate Pareto of the first kind.
A random vector X has a k-dimensional multivariate Pareto distribution of the Fourth Kind if its joint survival function is
The k<sub>1</sub>-dimensional marginal distributions (k<sub>1</sub><k) are of the same type as (4), and the one-dimensional marginal distributions are Pareto Type IV.
A random vector X has a k-dimensional FellerâÂÂPareto distribution if
where
are independent gamma variables. The marginal distributions and conditional distributions are of the same type (5); that is, they are multivariate FellerâÂÂPareto distributions. The oneâÂÂdimensional marginal distributions are of FellerâÂÂPareto type.