Comments on: Beta Profile [Equation of the Week] http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/eotw-beta-profile/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: TomLoredo http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/eotw-beta-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-243 TomLoredo Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:44:37 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=313#comment-243 "The form of the Lorentzian may also be familiar to people as the Cauchy Distribution..." This covers the beta=1 case. More generally it looks like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_t_distribution" rel="nofollow">Student's t distribution</a>, of which Cauchy is a special case. Thanks, Vinay, for pointing out someplace unexpected where this distribution appears! “The form of the Lorentzian may also be familiar to people as the Cauchy Distribution…” This covers the beta=1 case. More generally it looks like Student’s t distribution, of which Cauchy is a special case.

Thanks, Vinay, for pointing out someplace unexpected where this distribution appears!

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