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, the set of all Pareto efficient solutions
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Pareto principle, or the 80-20 rule
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Bartolomeo Pareto, 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 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, a surname
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Pereto, a town in Italy
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Perito, a town in Italy
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Italian-language surnames