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RE: st: A rose by any other name?


From   "Verkuilen, Jay" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: A rose by any other name?
Date   Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:19:25 -0500

>>To be more precise, the proposed model is a gamma density kernel, not
a
bonafide gamma density ,which integrates on 1.  Of course in this
context, the function is used to model nonlinear trend, not a
probability distribution of some random variable.>>

Right, and thus it's not dissimilar from using the logistic CDF as a
model for growth between asymptotes, which is often done using, say,
Gaussian errors around the curve itself. 





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