gamma distribution

British  

noun

1. statistics a continuous two-parameter distribution from which the chi-square and exponential distributions are derived, written Gamma (α. β), where α and β are greater than zero, and defined in terms of the gamma function

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Example Sentences

It’s an objectively terrifying document — scary enough that it jarred the American and British governments into taking bolder action to stop the virus’s spread — and I lay awake for hours after reading it, trying to repress visions of mass death as terms like “incubation period” and “gamma distribution” buzzed around in my head.

From New York Times

By a known probabilistic relation57, the age distribution of Y follows a gamma distribution.

From Nature

The evolutionary distances were computed using the Jones-Taylor-Thornton substitution model and the rate variation among sites was modelled with a gamma distribution of 1.

From Nature

The evolutionary distances were computed using the Jones-Taylor-Thornton substitution model and the rate variation among sites was modelled with a gamma distribution of 1.

From Nature