The gamma distribution

Hawkins, D. M.

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-3994-4_4

D. M. Hawkins²

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The general form of the gamma distribution is

$$ f(x\left| {\alpha ,\beta } \right.) = \beta ^\alpha x^{\alpha - 1} e^{ - \beta x} /\Gamma (x){\text{ }}\:x \geqslant 0 $$

The parameter α is a shape parameter and ß a scale parameter.

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D. M. Hawkins (Senior Consultant in Operations Research and Statistics)

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Hawkins, D.M. (1980). The gamma distribution. In: Identification of Outliers. Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3994-4_4

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