There are several different types of univariate Pareto distributions including Pareto Types I−IV and Feller−Pareto.[2] Multivariate Pareto distributions have been defined for many of these types.
Arnold[4] suggests representing the bivariate Pareto Type I complementary CDF by
If the location and scale parameter are allowed to differ, the complementary CDF is
which has Pareto Type II univariate marginal distributions. This distribution is called a multivariate Pareto distribution of type II by Arnold.[4] (This definition is not equivalent to Mardia's bivariate Pareto distribution of the second kind.)[3]
For a > 1, the marginal means are
while for a > 2, the variances, covariance, and correlation are the same as for multivariate Pareto of the first kind.
Mardia's[3]Multivariate Pareto distribution of the First Kind has the joint probability density function given by
The marginal distributions have the same form as (1), and the one-dimensional marginal distributions have a Pareto Type I distribution. The complementary CDF is
The marginal means and variances are given by
If a > 2 the covariances and correlations are positive with
Multivariate Pareto distribution of the second kind
Arnold[4] suggests representing the multivariate Pareto Type I complementary CDF by
If the location and scale parameter are allowed to differ, the complementary CDF is
which has marginal distributions of the same type (3) and Pareto Type II univariate marginal distributions. This distribution is called a multivariate Pareto distribution of type II by Arnold.[4]
For a > 1, the marginal means are
while for a > 2, the variances, covariances, and correlations are the same as for multivariate Pareto of the first kind.
Multivariate Pareto distribution of the fourth kind
A random vector X has a k-dimensional Feller–Pareto distribution if
where
are independent gamma variables.[4] The marginal distributions and conditional distributions are of the same type (5); that is, they are multivariate Feller–Pareto distributions. The one–dimensional marginal distributions are of Feller−Pareto type.