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ParetoCapDist: Generating a Pareto Capital Distribution

Description

The function ParetoCapDist is used to generate a capital-distribution object which follows a Pareto distribution with user-defined slope parameter.

Usage

ParetoCapDist(n, index = 1)

Arguments

Value

a capdist object.

Details

A capital distribution is said to follow a Pareto distribution if the log-log curve of market weights against ranks is linear. This function creates a hypothetitical market distribution given the slope of the curve.

References

Fernholz, E. R. (2002) Stochastic portfolio theory. Springer.

See Also

capdist

Examples

Run this code
x <- ParetoCapDist(n = 100, index = 1.1)

plot(x)

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