Timeline for Sum of exponential random variables follows Gamma, confused by the parameters
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| Oct 8, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | jbuddy_13 | So, a Gamma dist is both an rv and a process (collection of rvs indexed over time or space.) I always figured it was one or the other, but sounds like a process is a special type of rv. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 18:38 | comment | added | Neil G | @jbuddy_13 Yes. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 18:06 | comment | added | jbuddy_13 | So, if an event such as time for a webpage to process a hit request was exponentially distributed, Gamma might be used to model the time it takes to process x hit requests? (Assumes only 1 hit could be processed at a time, which is an illustrative assumption but not a practical/plausible one.) | |
| May 6, 2012 at 21:57 | history | answered | Neil G | CC BY-SA 3.0 |