A unifying probability density function (Q1312033)

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    A unifying probability density function (English)
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    12 April 1994
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    It is well documented in the literature that the Erlang-, \(\chi^ 2\)- and exponential distributions are special cases of the gamma distribution. This paper presents a new little result, which unifies the above distributions with the Weibull distribution. It is shown that using one additional parameter, called a unifying parameter, all the above distributions can be derived from one distribution.
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    chi-square distribution
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    Erlang-distribution
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    exponential distributions
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    gamma distribution
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    Weibull distribution
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    additional parameter
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    unifying parameter
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