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In genomics, the gamma distribution was applied in peak calling step (i.e., in recognition of signal) in ChIP-chip [41] and ChIP-seq [42] data analysis. In Bayesian statistics, the gamma distribution is widely used as a conjugate prior. It is the conjugate prior for the precision (i.e. inverse of the variance) of a normal distribution.
The Gamma distribution, which describes the time until n consecutive rare random events occur in a process with no memory. The Erlang distribution, which is a special case of the gamma distribution with integral shape parameter, developed to predict waiting times in queuing systems; The inverse-gamma distribution; The generalized gamma distribution
Some distributions have been specially named as compounds: beta-binomial distribution, Beta negative binomial distribution, gamma-normal distribution. Examples: If X is a Binomial(n,p) random variable, and parameter p is a random variable with beta(α, β) distribution, then X is distributed as a Beta-Binomial(α,β,n).
The gamma distribution generalizes the Erlang distribution by allowing k to be any positive real number, using the gamma function instead of the factorial function. That is: if k is an integer and X ∼ Gamma ( k , λ ) , {\displaystyle X\sim \operatorname {Gamma} (k,\lambda ),} then X ∼ Erlang ( k , λ ) {\displaystyle X\sim ...
In probability theory and statistics, the normal-gamma distribution (or Gaussian-gamma distribution) is a bivariate four-parameter family of continuous probability distributions. It is the conjugate prior of a normal distribution with unknown mean and precision .
This is the characteristic function of the gamma distribution scale parameter θ and shape parameter k 1 + k 2, and we therefore conclude + (+,) The result can be expanded to n independent gamma distributed random variables with the same scale parameter and we get
The generalized gamma distribution is a continuous probability distribution with two shape parameters (and a scale parameter).It is a generalization of the gamma distribution which has one shape parameter (and a scale parameter).
Inverse gamma distribution is a special case of type 5 Pearson distribution; A multivariate generalization of the inverse-gamma distribution is the inverse-Wishart distribution. For the distribution of a sum of independent inverted Gamma variables see Witkovsky (2001)