title: Fitting a pareto distribution with (python) Scipy
body: <p>I have a data set that I know has a Pareto distribution.  Can someone point me to how to fit this data set in Scipy?  I got the below code to run but I have no idea what is being returned to me (a,b,c).  Also, after obtaining a,b,c, how do I calculate the variance using them?</p>
  
  <pre><code>import scipy.stats as ss 
  import scipy as sp
  
  a,b,c=ss.pareto.fit(data)
  </code></pre>