Apparently not; according to Evans, Hastings, and Peacock " the LaPlace provides a heavier tailed alternative to the Gaussian." (Statistical Distributions, Wiley)
Chia C Chong wrote: > Hello... > > I wonder, are there any mathematical relationship between the Gaussian & > Laplacian PDF? How about the statistical explaination of these twoPDFs? I am > very interested to know more on these 2 PDFs. I would be grateful if someone > have ever come across any articles that discuss these would let me know the > further details. > > Thanks. > CCC . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
