A [[fat-tailed distribution]] is a distribution for which the probability density function, for large x, goes to zero as a power <math>x^{-a}</math>. Since such a power is always bounded below by the probability density function of an exponential distribution, fat-tailed distributions are always heavy-tailed. Some distributions, however, have a tail which goes to zero slower than an exponential function (meaning they are heavy-tailed), but faster than a power (meaning they are not fat-tailed). An example is the [[log-normal distribution]] {{Contradict-inline|article=fat-tailed distribution|reason=Fat-tailed page says log-normals are in fact fat-tailed.|date=June 2019}}. Many other heavy-tailed distributions such as the [[log-logistic distribution|log-logistic]] and [[Pareto distribution|Pareto]] distribution are, however, also fat-tailed. | A [[fat-tailed distribution]] is a distribution for which the probability density function, for large x, goes to zero as a power <math>x^{-a}</math>. Since such a power is always bounded below by the probability density function of an exponential distribution, fat-tailed distributions are always heavy-tailed. Some distributions, however, have a tail which goes to zero slower than an exponential function (meaning they are heavy-tailed), but faster than a power (meaning they are not fat-tailed). An example is the [[log-normal distribution]] {{Contradict-inline|article=fat-tailed distribution|reason=Fat-tailed page says log-normals are in fact fat-tailed.|date=June 2019}}. Many other heavy-tailed distributions such as the [[log-logistic distribution|log-logistic]] and [[Pareto distribution|Pareto]] distribution are, however, also fat-tailed. |