> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: [Question on Cauchy distribution]
>
>
> Rodrigo Briceno
>
> > Does anybody knows something about a distribution called Cauchy?
>
> One of the standard distributions. It is unimodal, symmetric,
> heavy-tailed, lacking in defined moments or cumulants, and nasty.
>
> See, for example, Johnson, Kotz and Balakrishnan, Continuous
> univariate
> distributions or Evans, Hastings and Peacock, Statistical
> distributions.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
I believe that the Cauchy distribution is the same as Student's t
distribution with one degree of freedom.
--Nick WInter
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