6 Aug
2009
6 Aug
'09
5:43 p.m.
On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
Every probability distribution can be generalized to accept a location and scale parameter even if their standard treatments do not.
pdf(x; loc,scale) -> pdf((x-loc)/scale)/scale
Agreed, as long as we are talking about *continuous* distributions. The behavior is quite different for *discrete* distributions. Even if the scale is simply discarded already, using a location will probably NOT give the expected result