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Jeromy Anglim
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Does the distribution $\log(1 + x^{-2}) / 2\pi$ have a name?

I ran across this density the other day. Has someone given this a name?

$f(x) = \log(1 + x^{-2}) / 2\pi$

The density is infinite at the origin and it also has fat tails. I saw it used as a prior distribution in a context where many observations were expected to be small, though large values were expected as well.

John D. Cook
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