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Table 5 A quasi-Pareto distribution of the categorical characteristics

From: An alternative approach to dimension reduction for pareto distributed data: a case study

Categorical

variable

# of all the characteristics

# of the most frequent characteristics

# of Meter Devices

Total number of devices remaining after the Pareto rules

Defective

Non-defective

A

98

23 (23%)

1855 (90%)

13,474 (86%)

15,329

B

45

7 (16%)

1854 (90%)

13,707 (88%)

15,561

C

48

11 (23%)

1889 (92%)

13,369 (85%)

15,258

D

14

3 (21%)

1945 (94%)

13,963 (89%)

15,908