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 The Pareto distribution is also heavy-tailed.
 
-Less formally, a **heavy-tailed** distribution is one that is not exponentially bounded (i.e. the tails are heavier than the exponential distribution). 
+Less formally, a heavy-tailed distribution is one that is not exponentially bounded (i.e. the tails are heavier than the exponential distribution). 
 
 A distribution $F$ on $\mathbb R_+$ is called **light-tailed** if it is not heavy-tailed.