[R] How can I simulate Pareto distribution in R?

[Göran Broström]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:21:47AM -0800, Ni Xiao wrote:
> Hi, guys,
>    I need to simulate Pareto distribution. But I found 'rpareto' didn't exist in R. And it seems that Pareto distribution don't have mathematical relationships with other distributions. What can I do?

Well, it has a relation to the uniform distribution thru 
F(X) = U ~ uniform(0, 1), 
where X is  Pareto with cdf F. Solve for X and you have just reinvented the
"inverse method" of generating random numbers from a cdf F.

Remigijus made that explicit for you.

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