This book provides broad, up-to-date coverage of the Pareto model and its extensions. This edition expands several chapters to accommodate recent results and reflect the increased use of more computer-intensive inference procedures. It includes new material on multivariate inequality and new discussions of bivariate and multivariate income and survival models. This edition also explores recent ways of handling the problems of inference for Pareto models and their generalizations and extensions.

Barry C. Arnold is a distinguished professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Arnold is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Historical Sketch with Emphasis on Income Modeling. Models for Income Distributions. Pareto and Related Heavy-Tailed Distributions. Measures of Inequality. Inference for Pareto Distributions. Multivariate Pareto Distributions. Appendices. References. Index.