https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477801#M71323 <P>it might be instructive to plot the fitted curve over your observed data</P> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:44:41 GMT pau13rown 2018-07-13T07:44:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477768#M71322 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="result.JPG" style="width: 579px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21771iE7F118A53E01B394/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="result.JPG" alt="result.JPG" /></span></P><P>I am using BASE sas fitting distribution for the data.</P><P>and the result showed as I posted the picture above.</P><P>as I know 'Alpha' parameter of pareto distributon is usually not less than 0 but, the result show like that.</P><P>I would like to know Is it work for this data (regardless of p-value)?</P> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 04:39:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477768#M71322 Peaw 2018-07-13T04:39:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477801#M71323 <P>it might be instructive to plot the fitted curve over your observed data</P> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:44:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477801#M71323 pau13rown 2018-07-13T07:44:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477957#M71324 <P>The distribution you are fitting with PROC UNIVARIATE is a GENERALIZED Pareto distribution (GPD), which&nbsp;might be probably different than what you are expecting. The (regular) Pareto distribution can be fit by PROC SEVERITY if you have access to SAS/ETS software.</P> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:24:02 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Is-Pareto-distribution-for-this-data-work/m-p/477957#M71324 Rick_SAS 2018-07-13T17:24:02Z