What is the "Generalized Error Distribution"? In Nelson (1991), which develops the Exponential GARCH model, he refers (p. 352) to the "Generalized Error Distribution (GED)" and provides this density function:
$$f(z; \nu) = \frac{\nu\cdot\exp\left[ -\frac{1}{2}|z/\lambda|^{\nu} \right]}{\lambda 2^{(1+1/\nu)}\Gamma(1/\nu)},$$ where
\begin{equation}
  \lambda\equiv \sqrt{\frac{2^{(-2/\nu)}\Gamma(1/\nu)}{\Gamma(3/\nu)}},
\end{equation}
and $\Gamma(\cdot)$ is the gamma function.
When $\nu=2$ this is equivalent to the standard Normal distribution, since $\lambda=1$ and
$$f(z; 2) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \exp\left(-\frac{z^2}{2}\right).$$
This distribution also appears in Leemis and McQueston (2008), which lists many distributions, where they call it the "Error (exponential power, general error)" distribution and write it as
$$f(z) = \frac{\exp\left[-\frac{1}{2}(|z-a|/b)^{2/c}\right]}{b(2^{c/2+1})\Gamma(1+c/2)}.$$
Letting $a=0$, $b=\lambda$, and $c=2/\nu$ we can see that these are the same distributions. Clearly $a$ is the mean parameter, which was assumed to be 0 in Nelson's paper.
I'm trying to understand the relation between this distribution and what Wikipedia calls the "generalized error distribution", with pdf
$$g(z) = \frac{\beta}{2\alpha\Gamma(1/\beta)} \; e^{-(|z-\mu|/\alpha)^\beta}.$$
Trying to write the Leemis and McQuestion version in the same form as Wikipedia, let $\beta=2/c$, $a=\mu$, and $\alpha=b$. We have
$$f(z) = \frac{\exp\left[-\frac{1}{2}(|z-\mu|/\alpha)^{\beta}\right]}{2\alpha(2^{1/\beta})\Gamma(1+1/\beta)} = 
\frac{\beta \exp\left[-\frac{1}{2}(|z-\mu|/\alpha)^{\beta}\right]}{2\alpha\Gamma(1/\beta)(2^{1/\beta})},$$
where I've used the fact that $\Gamma(1+x)=x\Gamma(x)$.
These do not look like the same distributions. There's an extra $2^{1/\beta}$ term in the denominator, and the $-\frac{1}{2}$ term in the exponential.
The question is, are these actually the same distributions? Have I made a mistake somewhere?
References
Nelson, Daniel B. "Conditional heteroskedasticity in asset returns: A new approach." Econometrica (1991): 347-370.
Leemis, Lawrence M., and Jacquelyn T. McQueston. "Univariate distribution relationships." The American Statistician 62, no. 1 (2008): 45-53.
 A: These are indeed the same distribution. I've found several parameterizations in use:
The Nelson (1991) parameterization is
$$f(z) = \frac{\nu\cdot\exp\left[ -\frac{1}{2}|z/\lambda|^{\nu} \right]}{\lambda 2^{(1+1/\nu)}\Gamma(1/\nu)}.$$
To get the parameterization used on Wikipedia, let $\nu=\beta$ and $\lambda=\alpha 2^{-1/\beta}$, and add a mean parameter $\mu$, so
\begin{equation}
f(z) = \frac{\beta}{2\alpha\Gamma(1/\beta)} \, \exp\left\{-\left(\frac{|z-\mu|}{\alpha}\right)^\beta\right\}.
\end{equation}
where $\mu$, $\alpha$, and $\beta$ are the location, scale, and shape parameters, respectively.
Another parameterization, uses $\beta=p$ and $\alpha=\sigma p^{1/p}$. Then
\begin{align*}
f(z) &= \frac{p}{2\sigma p^{1/p}\Gamma(1/p)} \, 
\exp\left\{-\frac{1}{p}\left(\frac{|z-\mu|}{\sigma}\right)^p\right\}, \\
&= \frac{1}{2\sigma p^{1/p}\Gamma(1+1/p)} \, \exp\left\{-\frac{1}{p}\left|\frac{z-\mu}{\sigma}\right|^p\right\}.
\end{align*}
When the shape parameter, $p=2$, this reduces to a Normal distribution:
$$f(z) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi}} \, \exp\left\{-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{z-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^2\right\},$$
which follows from the fact that $\Gamma(1/2)=\sqrt{\pi}$. For a standard Normal with $\sigma=1$, we set $\alpha=2^{1/2}=\sqrt{2}$.
