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Re: st: [Question on Cauchy distribution]


From   Laurel A Copeland <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: [Question on Cauchy distribution]
Date   Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:19:21 -0500

Rodrigo,

Many informative sites come up on www.google.com for the phrase "cauchy distribution"
e.g.,
The Cauchy Distribution. ... The Cauchy distribution is symmetric around zero, and bell-shaped, but it has considerably heavier tails than the normal distribution. ...
ebook.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/singles/ describe_single/probmodels/cauchy/
[couldn't get to site]

and
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
"The standard Cauchy distribution is a probability distribution with probability density function
f(x) = 1 / (p (1+x2)).
It is often cited as an example of a distribution which has no mean, variance or higher moments defined, although its mode and median are well defined and both zero. "


At 04:07 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> Rodrigo Briceno
>
> > Does anybody knows something about a distribution called Cauchy?
>
Laurel A Copeland, PhD
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