Shape parameter
In probability theory and statistics, a shape parameter is a special kind of numerical parameter of a parametric family of probability distributions.
Definition
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Examples
The following continuous probability distributions have a shape parameter:
- Beta distribution
- Burr distributions
- Erlang distribution
- Exponential power distribution
- Gamma distribution
- Generalized extreme value distribution
- Inverse-gamma distribution
- Pareto distribution
- Pearson distribution
- Weibull distribution
See also
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