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Continuous

(note, the degrees of freedom, is a positive integer)

This distribution is a special case of the gamma distribution (for and ). It has application in hypothesis testing.

Beta

(note, and )

Cauchy

Note: the mean of the Cauchy distribution actually does not exist strictly, but since the distribution is symmetric, it is generally taken to be .

Erlang

(note, n is a positive integer and )

This is a special case of the gamma distribution (where is an integer). This distribution has applications in problems concerning the time between independent events, which each have exponential distribution.

Exponential

(note, )

This distribution has applications in queueing problems, lifetime of events problems and in some physics problems.

F

(note, and are positive integers).

Gamma

(note, and )

Log-Normal

Note that is Normal, hence the name.

Normal (Gaussian)

Rayleigh

Uniform

Weibull

(note, and )

Applications in failure, reliability and lifetime problems.



Skip Carter
Wed May 22 15:29:40 PDT 1996