Is the Lorentz distribution another name for the Cauchy distribution
with density
f(x) = \frac{1}{\pi} \frac{1}{1+x^2}
possibly with location and scale parameters?
albyn
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:04:05PM +0100, Markus H?ge
wrote:> Hi there,
>
> I was looking for a Lorentz-distribution in R but I didn't find any
> physical distribution. Is there s.th which I can use for fitting.
>
> thanks
>
> Markus
>
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