On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:35:17 +0200, "Caroline Le Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all, > >Is someone can help me ? >If X is distributed as a gaussian distribution with m as mean and s as >standard deviation, what is the distribution of 1/X ? >Particularly, what is the mean and the standard deviation of 1/X ? Neither the mean nor the s.d. exist, since the density of X is positive at 0. I don't think the distribution has a standard name. You can use standard transformation techniques to work out the density or CDF from the Gaussian one. Duncan Murdoch . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
