statistics, the concept of the shape of a probability distribution arises in questions of finding an appropriate distribution to use to model the statistical...

of the variable and its complement to 1, respectively, and control the shape of the distribution. The beta distribution has been applied to model the...

Erlang distribution is a special case of the gamma distribution wherein the shape of the distribution is discretised. The Erlang distribution was developed...

chi-squared distribution are special cases of the gamma distribution. There are two equivalent parameterizations in common use: With a shape parameter k...

deviation a measure of the shape of the distribution like skewness or kurtosis if more than one variable is measured, a measure of statistical dependence...

The cone-shape distribution function, also known as the Zhao–Atlas–Marks time-frequency distribution, (acronymized as the ZAM distribution or ZAMD), is...

statistics, a shape parameter (also known as form parameter) is a kind of numerical parameter of a parametric family of probability distributions that is neither...

and shape of the empirical cumulative distribution functions of the two samples. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test can be modified to serve as a goodness of fit...

It resembles the normal distribution in shape but has heavier tails (higher kurtosis). The logistic distribution is a special case of the Tukey lambda...

\end{cases}}} where k > 0 is the shape parameter and λ > 0 is the scale parameter of the distribution. Its complementary cumulative distribution function is a stretched...