In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ZHANG Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Many thanks for this reply and previously several patient answers provided. > >Xi are iid gamma distribution and should have the same scale parameter. >If the shape parameter and scale parameter of Xi are a and b, respectively. >Then Y is still gamma distribution. Moreover, the shape parameter of Y is a, >and the scale parameter of Y is nb. Is this correct? No. The scale parameter of Y is b and the shape parameter of Y is na. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
