Random Sample Generation
Random samples can be generated using inverse transform sampling. Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution on the unit interval (0, 1], the variate T given by
is Pareto-distributed. If U is uniformly distributed on [0, 1), it can be exchanged for (1 - U).
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