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GammaDistribution Class

Represents the Gamma distribution.

For a list of all members of this type, see GammaDistribution Members.

System.Object
   Distribution
      ContinuousDistribution
         GammaDistribution

[Visual Basic]
Public Class GammaDistribution
Inherits ContinuousDistribution
[C#]
public class GammaDistribution : ContinuousDistribution

Remarks

The Gamma distribution of order a > 0 is defined by: probability(x) = {1 / Gamma(a) _scale^a} x^{a-1} exp{-x/_scale} with x > 0. The value _scale is called the scale parameter. If X and Y are independent gamma-distributed _random variables of order a1 and a2 with the same scale parameter _scale, then X+Y has gamma distribution of order a1+a2.

Requirements

Namespace: Extreme.Statistics.Distributions

Assembly: Extreme.Statistics (in Extreme.Statistics.dll)

See Also

GammaDistribution Members | Extreme.Statistics.Distributions Namespace