Questions tagged [gamma-distribution]
A non-negative continuous probability distribution indexed by two strictly positive parameters.
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R: using gamma distribution of the gbm package [on hold]
I wanted to use the gamma distribution of the gbm package which has not originally been developed.
So, based on this topic: R: Which distribution to use with gbm for gamma distributed data?
I've been ...
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PDF of human population weight distribution
I have a lot of data on human weight coupled with information about gender, age, country and platform (desktop or mobile user). Looking something like this:
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Hypothesis testing for the Gamma distribution - Rejection region
Suppose under $H_0$, a test statistic $T$ has a gamma distribution with paramaters $\theta$ and $k$. Suppose also that the distribution of $T$ under $H_1$ is unknown. What is the appropriate rejection ...
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Proving $\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt\pi$ using the expected value of standard normal variable
I'm looking to prove that $\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt\pi$ using the fact that $E(Z^2)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{\frac{-z^2}{2}} z^2\, dz$ (where $Z$ is a standard ...
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Which gamma regression model to use for extrapolation?
I'm looking for a regression model which would satify these requirements:
My target variable follows the exponential distribution, so to my understanding I should use gamma loss function. I have ...
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Truncated Gamma Distribution
The Gamma distribution is the conjugate prior of Poisson distribution. What about the Truncated Gamma distribution? Is it still the conjugate prior of Poisson distribution?
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Numerically/approximately integrating over independent gamma variables
Problem Statement
For a problem in biology, I am testing out a joint distribution of the form:
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X \sim Multinomial(\frac{\theta_1}{\sum \theta_i}, ...,\frac{\theta_n}{\sum{\theta_i}}) \\
\theta_i \...
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In an MCMC model, what happens if the observed data contains negative and positive observations, but a strictly positive model (Gamma) is used?
Suppose that we observe data that range from negative to positive support. Now, suppose we use a likelihood specification that is a Gamma, or some other distribution with strict positive support. I ...
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MLE For Gamma Distribution [duplicate]
The $(\alpha, \lambda)$ Gamma distribution has density function
$f(x| \alpha, \lambda) = \frac{\lambda^\alpha x^{\alpha-1} e^{-\lambda x}}{\Gamma(\alpha)}$ for $x>0$
How can we obtain an MLE ...
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FITDIST: Why am I getting this shape for the gamma distribution?
I am using fitdist to fit a gamma distribution based on this link:
How to draw fitted graph and actual graph of gamma distribution in one plot?
My code is as follows:
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Poisson Gamma Distribution in R - Creating Enrollment Modeling Curve
I'm trying to create an enrollment curve for a clinical trial based on the following variables: Country start up timelines (staggered), Number of sites, Number of total subjects needed, Number of ...
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Do mismatches in areas of peak density affect the KS-test more than mismatches in low-density areas?
In the following plot you see my empirical data (black) plotted against a hypothesised distribution (blue).
However, a KS-test shows that there is no indication that my sample follows this ...
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Gamma glm log link - what does predicted values mean
Does the predict function in R for gamma glm with log link predict the actual values or the mean value?
There is a gamma glm model in R with log link. Using predict(model,data,type = 'response') to ...
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Shift data to use Gamma glm with “identity” link?
I am trying to fit a glm using the Gamma family and the "identity" link. As I am analyzing nutrient concentrations in coastal waters (that can not be negative and are unlikely to be zero) I assume the ...
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Gamma Distribution Sufficient Statistics
I've been asked to show the gamma distribution can be written in the form $p(x|\alpha, \beta) = f(x) g(\alpha, \beta) e^{h(\alpha,\beta)^T T(x)}$ where $T(x)$ is a sufficient statistic.
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Inverse of Gamma Distribution [closed]
I am using python to calculate Inverse of a CDF of gamma distribution (using scipy. stat.gamma.fit). But for probability value 1, it is coming infinite. If it is replaced from 1 to 0.99 it works but ...
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two independent Poisson Arrivals
I have two types of customers (type 1 and type 2) enter a shop. Their arrival processes are independent and follow Poisson process with the arrival rates of $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2.$
Consider two ...
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How much data is considered “sparse” for fitting a mixed (Beta Geometric) distribution with 4 shape parameters?
I'm using CamDavidsonPhillips Customer Lifetime Value library to calculate CLV, and it uses a distribution based on Peter Fader's work on the subject that fits a Gamma distribution to model customer ...
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Point mass at zero and a chi square distribution with one degree of freedom
I am unclear about the critical value of a point mass at zero and a chi square distribution with one degree of freedom. How to find this?
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Apply 3 sigma formula in gamma distribution?
Let say i have some data that follows gamma distribution, and i calculated the Mean and Standard deviation of the gamma distribution.
I also know that there are some outliers(Noise) in the data i ...
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What are the assumptions of a Gamma GLM or GLMM for hypothesis testing?
What are the assumptions when doing hypothesis testing using a Gamma GLM or GLMM? Are the residuals suppose to be normally distributed and is heteroscedasticity a concern like the Gaussian (normal) ...
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Expected value of last Gamma RV in a sum
I've got a sum of $X_i \sim \text{Gamma}(k, \theta)$ i.i.d. random variables. I'm trying to find the expected value of the final $X_i$ that takes the sum above a certain value, i.e., to find the value ...
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What is the best point forecast for gamma distributed data?
I believe that the values I am forecasting are gamma distributed with shape $k>0$ and scale $\theta>0$. I need a point forecast (i.e., a one-number summary) that minimizes the expected error. ...
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What is the problem in my CDF derivation?
Let $Z = \frac{XY}{aX+bY+c}$ where the random variable $X$ and $Y$ follows gamma distribution such that
$X\sim G(\lambda_x,\theta_x)$ and $Y\sim G(\lambda_y,\theta_y)$
The CDF of $Z$ can be ...
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Gamma family GLM fails after removal of highly influential point
I have some data where distribution seems light a rough Gamma distribution. I am therefore investigating the relationship in r using a Gamma family Generalized Linear Model. When I investigate the ...
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glmer model convergence question
We are working with a longitudinal dataset, with three variables: WAIP, BPSRRI and group. WAIP and BPSRRI are measured repeatedly for 10 times and group refers to the group assignment of our subjects ...
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Independence of ratios of independent variates
If $X= x_1/(x_1+x_2)$ and $Y= (x_1+x_2)/(x_1+x_2+x_3)$ where
$x_1,x_2,x_3$ independent chi-square variates with d.f $n_1,n_2,n_3$
respectively, are $X$ & $Y$ independent?
I know the condition ...
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Is my data suited for an ANOVA?
I have two types of "media" (surface and sediment). I have six toxin variants "variant". All the toxins originate in the surface water, but I want to know if certain toxins are more likely to ...
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Gamma distribution as a member of exponential family
In my lecture notes I have that the distribution of a random variable $Y$ is said to be in the exponential family if it can be written as
$f(y;\theta)=exp(a(y)b(\theta)+c(\theta)+d(y))$, where $a,b,c$ ...
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Gamma distribution
We consider the gamma pdf of a random variable $Y$ that is given by:
$$f(y) = (s^a \Gamma (a))^{-1} y^{a-1}e^{-\frac{y}{s}},$$
where $y \geq 0$, $s$ is the scale parameter and $a$ the shape ...
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Is the convolution of independent normal and gamma also a Pearson distribution?
The answer here What is the convolution of a normal distribution with a gamma distribution? gives the pdf of convolution of normal and gamma random variables. Is there a known random variable to which ...
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Canonical link of Gamma Distribution [duplicate]
I wonder why my professor said that Gamma's canonical link is $\frac{1}{\mu}$. My thoughts are:
EDIT: $\theta$ is the canonical parameter.
Since
$$\mathbb{E}_\theta(Y)=b^{'}(\theta)=-\frac{1}{\theta}...
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Understanding this expression of the multivariate t-distribution
I found this SO post which expresses the PDF of a multivariate t-distribution in terms of the gamma and normal distribution in python as follows
$$
G = \Gamma (k = \nu /2 ; \theta = 2 / \nu)\\
Z = N (...
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Generate an autocorrelated Gamma sample of length N
How does one simulate an autocorrelated Gamma sample of length $N$? All I found online was about generation correlated variables and not an autocorrelated sample.
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In a gamma regression, how can i interpret coefficients?
My question is pretty simple, i have done a bayesian gamma regression with an inverse link, so:
$\eta_i$=$\beta_0+\beta_1x_{i1}+\dots+\beta_px_{ip}$ <
using an inverse link, mu is the ...
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hypothesis testing - gamma distribution
Let W = Y/B0 be a Random variable that has a gamma(2n,1) distribution. [Y has a gamma(2n,B) distribution and W = Y/B].
i) Suppose you want to test H0 : B ≤ B0 against H1 : B > B0 for some B0 > 0. How
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Robust analogues of Mean, CV and Skewness
I need to characterize the mean, CV and skewness of my observed data (it is gamma-like distributed). This data is an artifact (outliers) enriched, so I decide to use robust statistics: median, ...
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Show posterior mean can be written as a weighted average of the prior mean and MLE
Suppose $Y_1, \dots Y_n$ are exponentially distributed: $Y_i | \lambda \sim Exp(\lambda)$.
Find the conjugate prior for $\lambda$, and the corresponding posterior distribution.
Show that the posterior ...
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Why does not the weighted sum of gamma distribution come from weighted gamma variables?
If $Z\sim 0.3\Gamma(\alpha _1,\beta _1)+0.7\Gamma (\alpha _2,\beta_2)$, why isn't $Z=0.3X_1+0.7X_2$? $X_1\sim\Gamma(\alpha _1,\beta _1)$ and $X_2\sim\Gamma(\alpha _2,\beta _2)$?
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Do test scores really follow a normal distribution?
I've been trying to learn which distributions to use in GLMs, and I'm a little fuzzled on when to use the normal distribution. In one part of my textbook, it says that a normal distribution could be ...
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How can a sum of squared random variables distributed normally with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$ be represented as a gamma distribution?
Firstly, I'm sorry about the formatting, I hope someone can come along and give me a hand with this.
I have a sum of squares of $n$ random variables distributed normally with mean $\mu$ and variance $...
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Lower incomplete gamma function format in series representation and R [closed]
As known that the lower incomplete gamma function can be written as $\gamma(a,x) = x^{a}e^{-x}\sum_k^\infty{{x^{k}}\over a^{k+1}}.$ What is the format for $\sum_j^\infty{\gamma(v/p-j,rx^{p})} $ in ...
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Generalized incomplete gamma function
As I know there is a built in function for incomplete gamma function, incgam(x, a), in R. May I know is there a built in function for the generalized incomplete gamma function? Or how can I modify the ...
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Unexpected estimate in Gamma GLM summary output
I have a question. How on earth is it possible to have a negative estimate for a form of a nominal variable (two forms: "HM" and "LM") when it should be positive? I'm modelling a positive continuous ...
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Deriving marginal pdf from joint pdf
Problem setup: $X \sim \Gamma(\alpha,\beta)$, $f_{Y|X}(y|x)= \tau xy^{\tau-1}e^{-xy^\tau}$ for $y>0$ and $f_{Y|X}(y|x)=0$ for $y\leq0$, where $\tau\geq1$ is a constant.
I am asked to derive the ...
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Showing that a Gamma distribution converges to a Normal distribution
Consider $G = \operatorname{Gamma}(p)$. As $p$ goes to $\infty$, the Gamma becomes more and more bell-shaped. How do I show that $\frac{G - p}{\sqrt{p}} \to Z \sim N(0,1)$ as $p \to \infty$?
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Bayesian Inference: Modeling checkout times at a store
I am currently learning how to use Bayesian inference. I have been making up problems (by defining some population parameters) and then trying to infer those values from samples. I recently made up a ...
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Gamma-gamma conjugacy for rate parameter of Gamma distribution
the question is as follows.
Assume the shape $r$ is a known constant. For $x \sim$ Gamma(shape = $r$, rate = $v$), the p.d.f is:
$$p(x|r,v) = x^{r-1}e^{-vx}v^r/\Gamma(r)$$
a) Show that the $\theta \...
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Survival time problem exponential with gamma prior
The survival times, in days, of patients diagnosed with a severe form of a terminal illness
are thought to be well modelled by an exponential($\theta$) distribution. We observe the survival
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How to evaluate $\int_0^\infty m^{x+1}e^{-2m}dm$ as $\Gamma(x+2)\frac{1}{2}^{x+2}$?
$\int_0^\infty \frac{m^{x+1}e^{-2m}}{\Gamma(x+1)\Gamma(2)}dm =\frac{\Gamma(x+2)\frac{1}{2}^{x+2}}{\Gamma(x+1)\Gamma(2)}$
How does the left side equal the right side? I understand that the gamma ...
