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From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: [Question on Cauchy distribution]
Date   Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:16:33 -0000

Nick Winter

> > > Does anybody knows something about a distribution called Cauchy?
> >
> > One of the standard distributions. It is unimodal, symmetric,
> > heavy-tailed, lacking in defined moments or cumulants, and nasty.
> >
> > See, for example, Johnson, Kotz and Balakrishnan, Continuous
> > univariate
> > distributions or Evans, Hastings and Peacock, Statistical
> > distributions.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
>
> I believe that the Cauchy distribution is the same as Student's t
> distribution with one degree of freedom.
>

.. when standardised (location parameter 0, scale parameter 1).

Nick
[email protected]

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