Anything related to the gamma probability distribution, i.e. a continuous probability distribution whose probability density function is connected to the "gamma function". DO NOT USE this tag for questions about the gamma function, use the [gamma-function] tag instead.
Anything related to the gamma probability distribution, i.e. a continuous probability distribution whose probability density function is connected to the gamma function.
If a variable X follows a gamma distribution with shape parameter k>0 and scale parameter θ, then it has probability density function:
It follows that E(X)=kθ and Var(X)=kθ². In some texts, the gamma distribution is parameterized instead by the rate parameter, which is the reciprocal of the scale parameter: β=1/θ.
DO NOT USE this tag for questions about the gamma function, use the gamma-function tag instead.
See Wikipedia page on the gamma distribution.
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