Message-ID: <loom.20100111T232246-266@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2010-01-11T22:23:47Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: 2 parameter exponential distribution
John Westbury <jrwestbury <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to R and am trying to figure out how to specify an exponential
> distribution with scale and shape parameters. I can specify an exponential
> distribution with an inverse scale but would like to know how to specify the
> distribution with a shape parameter as well.
>
> thanks much,
>
> John
>
Do you mean a gamma distribution? I'm unfamiliar with any
definition of the exponential distribution with more than one
parameter. Can you point to a reference/example somewhere?
Ben Bolker