{"id":28704,"date":"2013-05-21T17:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=28704"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:54:27","slug":"the-gamma-distribution-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/the-gamma-distribution-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gamma Distribution Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Gamma Distribution Notes<\/h1>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\">The Gamma Distribution<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The gamma distribution is a flexible distribution that may offer a good fit to some sets of life data. Sometimes called the Erlang distribution, the gamma distribution has applications in Bayesian analysis as a prior distribution, and it is also commonly used in queueing theory.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>pdf<\/i>\u00a0of the gamma distribution is given by:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<dl>\n<dd><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reliawiki.org\/images\/math\/c\/2\/4\/c2471192019baaeafd50f3f3f0df2c8a.png\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>where:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<dl>\n<dd><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reliawiki.org\/images\/math\/0\/7\/4\/07405ce5c3631e794ef901340d87486e.png\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>where\u00a0<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reliawiki.org\/images\/math\/8\/c\/7\/8c7af22b8710d5928873a4647270498e.png\">,\u00a0<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reliawiki.org\/images\/math\/2\/b\/b\/2bb3835cc9fe95cfaa26ca0deaf3c864.png\">\u00a0and\u00a0<img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/reliawiki.org\/images\/math\/9\/a\/7\/9a7999d1fb4a8ff47b3f96ea3d4c398a.png\">.<\/p>\n<p>The gamma distribution and its characteristics are presented in\u00a0The Gamma Distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gamma Distribution Notes The Gamma Distribution The gamma distribution is a flexible distribution that may offer a good fit to some sets of life data. Sometimes called the Erlang distribution, the gamma distribution has applications in Bayesian analysis as a prior distribution, and it is also commonly used in queueing theory. The\u00a0pdf\u00a0of the gamma &#8230; <a title=\"The Gamma Distribution Notes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/the-gamma-distribution-notes\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Gamma Distribution Notes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[4773],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}