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A gamma distribution is a general type of statistical distribution that is related to the beta distribution and arises naturally in processes for which the waiting times between Poisson distributed events are relevant. Gamma distributions have two free parameters, labeled and , a few of which are illustrated above.
Consider the distribution function of waiting times until the th Poisson event given a Poisson distribution with a rate of change ,
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for , where is a complete gamma function, and an incomplete gamma function. With an integer, this distribution is a special case known as the Erlang distribution.
The corresponding probability function of waiting times until the th Poisson event is then obtained by differentiating ,
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Now let (not necessarily an integer) and define to be the time between changes. Then the above equation can be written
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for . This is the probability function for the gamma distribution, and the corresponding distribution function is
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where is a regularized gamma function.
It is implemented in the Wolfram Language as the function GammaDistribution[alpha, theta].
The characteristic function describing this distribution is
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where is the Fourier transform with parameters , and the moment-generating function is
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giving moments about 0 of
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(Papoulis 1984, p. 147).
In order to explicitly find the moments of the distribution using the moment-generating function, let
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so
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giving the logarithmic moment-generating function as
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The mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis excess are then
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The gamma distribution is closely related to other statistical distributions. If , , ..., are independent random variates with a gamma distribution having parameters , , ..., , then is distributed as gamma with parameters
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Also, if and are independent random variates with a gamma distribution having parameters and , then is a beta distribution variate with parameters . Both can be derived as follows.
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Let
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then the Jacobian is
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so
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The sum therefore has the distribution
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which is a gamma distribution, and the ratio has the distribution
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where is the beta function, which is a beta distribution.
If and are gamma variates with parameters and , the is a variate with a beta prime distribution with parameters and . Let
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then the Jacobian is
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so
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The ratio therefore has the distribution
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which is a beta prime distribution with parameters .
The "standard form" of the gamma distribution is given by letting , so and
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so the moments about 0 are
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where is the Pochhammer symbol. The moments about are then
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The moment-generating function is
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and the cumulant-generating function is
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so the cumulants are
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If is a normal variate with mean and standard deviation , then
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is a standard gamma variate with parameter .
REFERENCES:
Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 534, 1987.
Jambunathan, M. V. "Some Properties of Beta and Gamma Distributions." Ann. Math. Stat. 25, 401-405, 1954.
Papoulis, A. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 103-104, 1984.
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