Pareto may refer to:
People
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Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (; ; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made severa ...
(1848–1923), Italian economist, political scientist, and philosopher, works named for him include:
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Pareto analysis, a statistical analysis tool in problem solving
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Pareto distribution
The Pareto distribution, named after the Italian civil engineer, economist, and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, is a power-law probability distribution that is used in description of social, quality control, scientific, geophysical, actuarial scien ...
, a power-law probability distribution
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Pareto efficiency
In welfare economics, a Pareto improvement formalizes the idea of an outcome being "better in every possible way". A change is called a Pareto improvement if it leaves at least one person in society better off without leaving anyone else worse ...
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Pareto front
In multi-objective optimization, the Pareto front (also called Pareto frontier or Pareto curve) is the set of all Pareto efficient solutions. The concept is widely used in engineering. It allows the designer to restrict attention to the set of effi ...
, the set of all Pareto efficient solutions
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Pareto principle, or the 80-20 rule
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Bartolomeo Pareto
Bartolomeo Pareto was a medieval priest and cartography, cartographer from Genoa who is best known for his sole surviving work, a 1455 nautical chart of the known world. The chart is highly ornate and is notable for its depiction of Antillia, a ph ...
, medieval priest and cartographer from Genoa
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Graziella Pareto (1889–1973), Catalan soprano
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Lorenzo Pareto
Lorenzo Nicolò Pareto (Genoa, 6 December 1800 – Genoa, 19 June 1865) was an Italian geologist and statesman.
As a man of science, he is considered one of the fathers of modern geology. A member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences, h ...
(1800–1865), Italian geologist and statesman
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Paula Pareto (born 1986), Argentine judoka
* Benedetto Pareto, builder of the
Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia
The Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia ("Our Lady of the Watch") is a Roman Catholic place of pilgrimage located on the top of Monte Figogna (804 m asl) in the Municipality of Ceranesi, about from the city of Genoa, in the northwest of Italy. ...
in Liguria, Italy
Other uses
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Pareto, Piedmont, a town in Italy
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Pareto Group, a Norwegian finance company
See also
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Paret Paret () is a surname of Catalan origin, and may refer to:
* Aurélien Paret-Peintre (born 1996), French cyclist
* Benny Paret (1937–1962), Cuban welterweight boxer
* Eduardo Paret (born 1972), Cuban baseball player
* Henri Paret (cyclist, born ...
, a surname
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Pereto
Pereto ( Marsicano: ') is a ''comune'' and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
It was an ancient centre of the Marsi.
Main sights
*Medieval castle, with its 13th-century imposing towers, which belonged to the Colon ...
, a town in Italy
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Perito
Perito ( Cilentan: ''Prito'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. As of 2011 its population was of 1,007.
History
In the Middle Ages Perito had an important role as fortified town i ...
, a town in Italy
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Italian-language surnames