Nick Winter
> > > 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
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> I believe that the Cauchy distribution is the same as Student's t
> distribution with one degree of freedom.
>
.. when standardised (location parameter 0, scale parameter 1).
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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