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href="/wiki/File:DelaportePMF.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Plot of the PMF for various Delaporte distributions."><img alt="Plot of the PMF for various Delaporte distributions." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/DelaportePMF.svg/325px-DelaportePMF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="325" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/DelaportePMF.svg/488px-DelaportePMF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/DelaportePMF.svg/650px-DelaportePMF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="421" /></a></span><br /> When <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>α</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \beta }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>β</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \beta }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7ed48a5e36207156fb792fa79d29925d2f7901e8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:1.332ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \beta }"></span> are 0, the distribution is the Poisson.<br />When <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b43d0ea3c9c025af1be9128e62a18fa74bedda2a" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.355ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda }"></span> is 0, the distribution is the negative binomial.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="infobox-image"> <div class="ib-prob-dist-image">Cumulative distribution function</div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DelaporteCDF.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Plot of the PMF for various Delaporte distributions."><img alt="Plot of the PMF for various Delaporte distributions." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/DelaporteCDF.svg/325px-DelaporteCDF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="325" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/DelaporteCDF.svg/488px-DelaporteCDF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/DelaporteCDF.svg/650px-DelaporteCDF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="421" /></a></span><br /> When <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>α</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \beta }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>β</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \beta }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7ed48a5e36207156fb792fa79d29925d2f7901e8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:1.332ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \beta }"></span> are 0, the distribution is the Poisson.<br />When <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b43d0ea3c9c025af1be9128e62a18fa74bedda2a" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.355ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda }"></span> is 0, the distribution is the negative binomial.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Statistical_parameter" title="Statistical parameter">Parameters</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <p><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda >0}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>></mo> <mn>0</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda >0}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/eea25afc0351140f919cf791c49c1964b8b081de" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:5.616ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda >0}"></span> (fixed mean) </p> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta >0}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>α</mi> <mo>,</mo> <mi>β</mi> <mo>></mo> <mn>0</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta >0}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f650e33744628e414c5e7bc24ecf964e3a39554f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:8.114ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta >0}"></span> (parameters of variable mean)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Support_(mathematics)" title="Support (mathematics)">Support</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle k\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>k</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">{</mo> <mn>0</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mn>2</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mo>…</mo> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">}</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle k\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8eb35fee530f159c49680d3b6ee3cf1c5cb16e67" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:15.689ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle k\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}}"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Probability_mass_function" title="Probability mass function">PMF</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{k}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{k-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(k-i)!}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <munderover> <mo>∑</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>i</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>k</mi> </mrow> </munderover> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="normal">Γ</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <msup> <mi>β</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <msup> <mi>λ</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>k</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <msup> <mi>e</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>−</mo> <mi>λ</mi> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="normal">Γ</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo>!</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>β</mi> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>α</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>k</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>!</mo> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{k}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{k-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(k-i)!}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e38e175dc50cede62f04e34fea29cddae6e5bfab" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.005ex; width:28.362ex; height:7.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{k}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{k-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(k-i)!}}}"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_function" title="Cumulative distribution function">CDF</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sum _{j=0}^{k}\sum _{i=0}^{j}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{j-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(j-i)!}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <munderover> <mo>∑</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>j</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>k</mi> </mrow> </munderover> <munderover> <mo>∑</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>i</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>j</mi> </mrow> </munderover> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="normal">Γ</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <msup> <mi>β</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <msup> <mi>λ</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>j</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <msup> <mi>e</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>−</mo> <mi>λ</mi> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="normal">Γ</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo>!</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>β</mi> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>α</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>i</mi> </mrow> </msup> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>j</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mi>i</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>!</mo> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sum _{j=0}^{k}\sum _{i=0}^{j}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{j-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(j-i)!}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fd3971b3c93c7d422cedc00ff8b799c580fa83f7" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.338ex; width:31.851ex; height:7.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sum _{j=0}^{k}\sum _{i=0}^{j}{\frac {\Gamma (\alpha +i)\beta ^{i}\lambda ^{j-i}e^{-\lambda }}{\Gamma (\alpha )i!(1+\beta )^{\alpha +i}(j-i)!}}}"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Expected_value" title="Expected value">Mean</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>β</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a0f46bb0263a1194be82fef3e0d3a81e66ac62fb" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:7.015ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta }"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Mode_(statistics)" title="Mode (statistics)">Mode</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\begin{cases}z,z+1&\{z\in \mathbb {Z} \}:\;z=(\alpha -1)\beta +\lambda \\\lfloor z\rfloor &{\textrm {otherwise}}\end{cases}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow> <mo>{</mo> <mtable columnalign="left left" rowspacing=".2em" columnspacing="1em" displaystyle="false"> <mtr> <mtd> <mi>z</mi> <mo>,</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>1</mn> </mtd> <mtd> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">{</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">}</mo> <mo>:</mo> <mspace width="thickmathspace" /> <mi>z</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mi>β</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>λ</mi> </mtd> </mtr> <mtr> <mtd> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">⌊</mo> <mi>z</mi> <mo fence="false" stretchy="false">⌋</mo> </mtd> <mtd> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>otherwise</mtext> </mrow> </mrow> </mtd> </mtr> </mtable> <mo fence="true" stretchy="true" symmetric="true"></mo> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\begin{cases}z,z+1&\{z\in \mathbb {Z} \}:\;z=(\alpha -1)\beta +\lambda \\\lfloor z\rfloor &{\textrm {otherwise}}\end{cases}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/50f55e064847216701f5e3a2022732ae02fff9cb" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.505ex; width:39.431ex; height:6.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\begin{cases}z,z+1&\{z\in \mathbb {Z} \}:\;z=(\alpha -1)\beta +\lambda \\\lfloor z\rfloor &{\textrm {otherwise}}\end{cases}}}"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Variance" title="Variance">Variance</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e4a608f88739570acadcba3cafb026d9d8be8164" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:14.159ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )}"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Skewness" title="Skewness">Skewness</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> See <a href="#Properties">#Properties</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Excess_kurtosis" class="mw-redirect" title="Excess kurtosis">Excess kurtosis</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> See <a href="#Properties">#Properties</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Moment-generating_function" title="Moment-generating function">MGF</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data"> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\frac {e^{\lambda (e^{t}-1)}}{(1-\beta (e^{t}-1))^{\alpha }}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msup> <mi>e</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>λ</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mi>e</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>t</mi> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> </msup> <mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>−</mo> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mi>e</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>t</mi> </mrow> </msup> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>α</mi> </mrow> </msup> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\frac {e^{\lambda (e^{t}-1)}}{(1-\beta (e^{t}-1))^{\alpha }}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/67f069111cca53c67c58fe68676586fbd9f3a52d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.671ex; width:16.986ex; height:6.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\frac {e^{\lambda (e^{t}-1)}}{(1-\beta (e^{t}-1))^{\alpha }}}}"></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Delaporte distribution</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Discrete_probability_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Discrete probability distribution">discrete probability distribution</a> that has received attention in <a href="/wiki/Actuarial_science" title="Actuarial science">actuarial science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EAS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EAS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UDD_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UDD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It can be defined using the <a href="/wiki/Convolution" title="Convolution">convolution</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution" title="Negative binomial distribution">negative binomial distribution</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Poisson_distribution" title="Poisson distribution">Poisson distribution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UDD_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UDD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Just as the <a href="/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution" title="Negative binomial distribution">negative binomial distribution</a> can be viewed as a Poisson distribution where the mean parameter is itself a random variable with a <a href="/wiki/Gamma_distribution" title="Gamma distribution">gamma distribution</a>, the Delaporte distribution can be viewed as a <a href="/wiki/Compound_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Compound distribution">compound distribution</a> based on a Poisson distribution, where there are two components to the mean parameter: a fixed component, which has the <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \lambda }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>λ</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \lambda }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b43d0ea3c9c025af1be9128e62a18fa74bedda2a" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.355ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \lambda }"></span> parameter, and a gamma-distributed variable component, which has the <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>α</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \beta }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>β</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \beta }</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7ed48a5e36207156fb792fa79d29925d2f7901e8" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:1.332ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \beta }"></span> parameters.<sup id="cite_ref-Vose_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vose-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The distribution is named for Pierre Delaporte, who analyzed it in relation to automobile accident claim counts in 1959,<sup id="cite_ref-DP_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it appeared in a different form as early as 1934 in a paper by Rolf von Lüders,<sup id="cite_ref-Luders_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Luders-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where it was called the Formel II distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-UDD_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UDD-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Properties">Properties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Delaporte_distribution&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Properties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Skewness" title="Skewness">skewness</a> of the Delaporte distribution is: </p><p><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\frac {\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+3\beta +2\beta ^{2})}{\left(\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )\right)^{\frac {3}{2}}}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mn>3</mn> <mi>β</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>2</mn> <msup> <mi>β</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> <msup> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>3</mn> <mn>2</mn> </mfrac> </mrow> </msup> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\frac {\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+3\beta +2\beta ^{2})}{\left(\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )\right)^{\frac {3}{2}}}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c7c76f4838b096e3850c520bca98303649deaa7a" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.838ex; width:22.552ex; height:7.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\frac {\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+3\beta +2\beta ^{2})}{\left(\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )\right)^{\frac {3}{2}}}}}"></span> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Kurtosis" title="Kurtosis">excess kurtosis</a> of the distribution is: </p><p><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\frac {\lambda +3\lambda ^{2}+\alpha \beta (1+6\lambda +6\lambda \beta +7\beta +12\beta ^{2}+6\beta ^{3}+3\alpha \beta +6\alpha \beta ^{2}+3\alpha \beta ^{3})}{\left(\lambda +\alpha \beta (1+\beta )\right)^{2}}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mrow> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>3</mn> <msup> <mi>λ</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mi>α</mi> <mi>β</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>+</mo> <mn>6</mn> <mi>λ</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>6</mn> <mi>λ</mi> <mi>β</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>7</mn> <mi>β</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mn>12</mn> <msup> <mi>β</mi> <mrow 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(1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02432340">"On moments of counting distributions satisfying the k'th-order recursion and their compound distributions"</a>. <i>Journal of Mathematical Sciences</i>. <b>92</b> (4): 4038–4043. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02432340">10.1007/BF02432340</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:122625458">122625458</a>.</cite><span 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navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with finite <br />support</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benford%27s_law" title="Benford's law">Benford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernoulli_distribution" title="Bernoulli distribution">Bernoulli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta-binomial_distribution" title="Beta-binomial distribution">Beta-binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binomial_distribution" title="Binomial distribution">Binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Categorical_distribution" title="Categorical distribution">Categorical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypergeometric_distribution" title="Hypergeometric distribution">Hypergeometric</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Negative_hypergeometric_distribution" title="Negative hypergeometric distribution">Negative</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poisson_binomial_distribution" title="Poisson binomial distribution">Poisson binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rademacher_distribution" title="Rademacher distribution">Rademacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soliton_distribution" title="Soliton distribution">Soliton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discrete_uniform_distribution" title="Discrete uniform distribution">Discrete uniform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipf%27s_law" title="Zipf's law">Zipf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipf%E2%80%93Mandelbrot_law" title="Zipf–Mandelbrot law">Zipf–Mandelbrot</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with infinite <br />support</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beta_negative_binomial_distribution" title="Beta negative binomial distribution">Beta negative binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borel_distribution" title="Borel distribution">Borel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conway%E2%80%93Maxwell%E2%80%93Poisson_distribution" title="Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution">Conway–Maxwell–Poisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discrete_phase-type_distribution" title="Discrete phase-type distribution">Discrete phase-type</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Delaporte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extended_negative_binomial_distribution" title="Extended negative binomial distribution">Extended negative binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flory%E2%80%93Schulz_distribution" title="Flory–Schulz distribution">Flory–Schulz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Kuzmin_distribution" title="Gauss–Kuzmin distribution">Gauss–Kuzmin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geometric_distribution" title="Geometric distribution">Geometric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logarithmic_distribution" title="Logarithmic distribution">Logarithmic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mixed_Poisson_distribution" title="Mixed Poisson distribution">Mixed Poisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution" title="Negative binomial distribution">Negative binomial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(a,b,0)_class_of_distributions" title="(a,b,0) class of distributions">Panjer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parabolic_fractal_distribution" title="Parabolic fractal distribution">Parabolic fractal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poisson_distribution" title="Poisson distribution">Poisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skellam_distribution" title="Skellam distribution">Skellam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yule%E2%80%93Simon_distribution" title="Yule–Simon distribution">Yule–Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeta_distribution" title="Zeta distribution">Zeta</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Continuous <br />univariate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">supported on a <br />bounded interval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arcsine_distribution" title="Arcsine distribution">Arcsine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ARGUS_distribution" title="ARGUS distribution">ARGUS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balding%E2%80%93Nichols_model" title="Balding–Nichols model">Balding–Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bates_distribution" title="Bates distribution">Bates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta_distribution" title="Beta distribution">Beta</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_beta_distribution" title="Generalized beta distribution">Generalized</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta_rectangular_distribution" title="Beta rectangular distribution">Beta rectangular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuous_Bernoulli_distribution" title="Continuous Bernoulli distribution">Continuous Bernoulli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irwin%E2%80%93Hall_distribution" title="Irwin–Hall distribution">Irwin–Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumaraswamy_distribution" title="Kumaraswamy distribution">Kumaraswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logit-normal_distribution" title="Logit-normal distribution">Logit-normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noncentral_beta_distribution" title="Noncentral beta distribution">Noncentral beta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PERT_distribution" title="PERT distribution">PERT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raised_cosine_distribution" title="Raised cosine distribution">Raised cosine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reciprocal_distribution" title="Reciprocal distribution">Reciprocal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triangular_distribution" title="Triangular distribution">Triangular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U-quadratic_distribution" title="U-quadratic distribution">U-quadratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuous_uniform_distribution" title="Continuous uniform distribution">Uniform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigner_semicircle_distribution" title="Wigner semicircle distribution">Wigner semicircle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">supported on a <br />semi-infinite <br />interval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benini_distribution" title="Benini distribution">Benini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benktander_type_I_distribution" title="Benktander type I distribution">Benktander 1st kind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benktander_type_II_distribution" title="Benktander type II distribution">Benktander 2nd kind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta_prime_distribution" title="Beta prime distribution">Beta prime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burr_distribution" title="Burr distribution">Burr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chi_distribution" title="Chi distribution">Chi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chi-squared_distribution" title="Chi-squared distribution">Chi-squared</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noncentral_chi-squared_distribution" title="Noncentral chi-squared distribution">Noncentral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverse-chi-squared_distribution" title="Inverse-chi-squared distribution">Inverse</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scaled_inverse_chi-squared_distribution" title="Scaled inverse chi-squared distribution">Scaled</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagum_distribution" title="Dagum distribution">Dagum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davis_distribution" title="Davis distribution">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erlang_distribution" title="Erlang distribution">Erlang</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hyper-Erlang_distribution" title="Hyper-Erlang distribution">Hyper</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_distribution" title="Exponential distribution">Exponential</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hyperexponential_distribution" title="Hyperexponential distribution">Hyperexponential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypoexponential_distribution" title="Hypoexponential distribution">Hypoexponential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exponential-logarithmic_distribution" title="Exponential-logarithmic distribution">Logarithmic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F-distribution" title="F-distribution"><i>F</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noncentral_F-distribution" title="Noncentral F-distribution">Noncentral</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folded_normal_distribution" title="Folded normal distribution">Folded normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet_distribution" title="Fréchet distribution">Fréchet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamma_distribution" title="Gamma distribution">Gamma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_gamma_distribution" title="Generalized gamma distribution">Generalized</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverse-gamma_distribution" title="Inverse-gamma distribution">Inverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamma/Gompertz_distribution" title="Gamma/Gompertz distribution">gamma/Gompertz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gompertz_distribution" title="Gompertz distribution">Gompertz</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shifted_Gompertz_distribution" title="Shifted Gompertz distribution">Shifted</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Half-logistic_distribution" title="Half-logistic distribution">Half-logistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Half-normal_distribution" title="Half-normal distribution">Half-normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hotelling%27s_T-squared_distribution" title="Hotelling's T-squared distribution">Hotelling's <i>T</i>-squared</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverse_Gaussian_distribution" title="Inverse Gaussian distribution">Inverse Gaussian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_inverse_Gaussian_distribution" title="Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution">Generalized</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_test" title="Kolmogorov–Smirnov test">Kolmogorov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution" title="Lévy distribution">Lévy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log-Cauchy_distribution" title="Log-Cauchy distribution">Log-Cauchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log-Laplace_distribution" title="Log-Laplace distribution">Log-Laplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log-logistic_distribution" title="Log-logistic distribution">Log-logistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log-normal_distribution" title="Log-normal distribution">Log-normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log-t_distribution" title="Log-t distribution">Log-t</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lomax_distribution" title="Lomax distribution">Lomax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrix-exponential_distribution" title="Matrix-exponential distribution">Matrix-exponential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Boltzmann_distribution" title="Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution">Maxwell–Boltzmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93J%C3%BCttner_distribution" title="Maxwell–Jüttner distribution">Maxwell–Jüttner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mittag-Leffler_distribution" title="Mittag-Leffler distribution">Mittag-Leffler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakagami_distribution" title="Nakagami distribution">Nakagami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pareto_distribution" title="Pareto distribution">Pareto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phase-type_distribution" title="Phase-type distribution">Phase-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poly-Weibull_distribution" title="Poly-Weibull distribution">Poly-Weibull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayleigh_distribution" title="Rayleigh distribution">Rayleigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relativistic_Breit%E2%80%93Wigner_distribution" title="Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution">Relativistic Breit–Wigner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rice_distribution" title="Rice distribution">Rice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truncated_normal_distribution" title="Truncated normal distribution">Truncated normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type-2_Gumbel_distribution" title="Type-2 Gumbel distribution">type-2 Gumbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weibull_distribution" title="Weibull distribution">Weibull</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Discrete_Weibull_distribution" title="Discrete Weibull distribution">Discrete</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilks%27s_lambda_distribution" title="Wilks's lambda distribution">Wilks's lambda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">supported <br />on the whole <br />real line</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cauchy_distribution" title="Cauchy distribution">Cauchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_normal_distribution#Version_1" title="Generalized normal distribution">Exponential power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher%27s_z-distribution" title="Fisher's z-distribution">Fisher's <i>z</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Gaussian_distribution" title="Kaniadakis Gaussian distribution">Kaniadakis κ-Gaussian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaussian_q-distribution" title="Gaussian q-distribution">Gaussian <i>q</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_normal_distribution" title="Generalized normal distribution">Generalized normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalised_hyperbolic_distribution" title="Generalised hyperbolic distribution">Generalized hyperbolic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geometric_stable_distribution" title="Geometric stable distribution">Geometric stable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gumbel_distribution" title="Gumbel distribution">Gumbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holtsmark_distribution" title="Holtsmark distribution">Holtsmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperbolic_secant_distribution" title="Hyperbolic secant distribution">Hyperbolic secant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson%27s_SU-distribution" title="Johnson's SU-distribution">Johnson's <i>S<sub>U</sub></i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landau_distribution" title="Landau distribution">Landau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laplace_distribution" title="Laplace distribution">Laplace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asymmetric_Laplace_distribution" title="Asymmetric Laplace distribution">Asymmetric</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logistic_distribution" title="Logistic distribution">Logistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noncentral_t-distribution" title="Noncentral t-distribution">Noncentral <i>t</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normal_distribution" title="Normal distribution">Normal (Gaussian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normal-inverse_Gaussian_distribution" title="Normal-inverse Gaussian distribution">Normal-inverse Gaussian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skew_normal_distribution" title="Skew normal distribution">Skew normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slash_distribution" title="Slash distribution">Slash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stable_distribution" title="Stable distribution">Stable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Student%27s_t-distribution" title="Student's t-distribution">Student's <i>t</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy%E2%80%93Widom_distribution" title="Tracy–Widom distribution">Tracy–Widom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Variance-gamma_distribution" title="Variance-gamma distribution">Variance-gamma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voigt_profile" title="Voigt profile">Voigt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with support <br />whose type varies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_chi-squared_distribution" title="Generalized chi-squared distribution">Generalized chi-squared</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_extreme_value_distribution" title="Generalized extreme value distribution">Generalized extreme value</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_Pareto_distribution" title="Generalized Pareto distribution">Generalized Pareto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marchenko%E2%80%93Pastur_distribution" title="Marchenko–Pastur distribution">Marchenko–Pastur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Exponential_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaniadakis Exponential distribution">Kaniadakis <i>κ</i>-exponential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Gamma_distribution" title="Kaniadakis Gamma distribution">Kaniadakis <i>κ</i>-Gamma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Weibull_distribution" title="Kaniadakis Weibull distribution">Kaniadakis <i>κ</i>-Weibull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Logistic_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaniadakis Logistic distribution">Kaniadakis <i>κ</i>-Logistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaniadakis_Erlang_distribution" title="Kaniadakis Erlang distribution">Kaniadakis <i>κ</i>-Erlang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-exponential_distribution" title="Q-exponential distribution"><i>q</i>-exponential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-Gaussian_distribution" title="Q-Gaussian distribution"><i>q</i>-Gaussian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-Weibull_distribution" title="Q-Weibull distribution"><i>q</i>-Weibull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shifted_log-logistic_distribution" title="Shifted log-logistic distribution">Shifted log-logistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukey_lambda_distribution" title="Tukey lambda distribution">Tukey lambda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mixed <br />univariate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">continuous-<br />discrete</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rectified_Gaussian_distribution" title="Rectified Gaussian distribution">Rectified Gaussian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Joint_probability_distribution" title="Joint probability distribution">Multivariate <br />(joint)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nobold"><i>Discrete: </i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewens%27s_sampling_formula" title="Ewens's sampling formula">Ewens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multinomial_distribution" title="Multinomial distribution">Multinomial</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dirichlet-multinomial_distribution" title="Dirichlet-multinomial distribution">Dirichlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negative_multinomial_distribution" title="Negative multinomial distribution">Negative</a></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nobold"><i>Continuous: </i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution" title="Dirichlet distribution">Dirichlet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_Dirichlet_distribution" title="Generalized Dirichlet distribution">Generalized</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_Laplace_distribution" title="Multivariate Laplace distribution">Multivariate Laplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_normal_distribution" title="Multivariate normal distribution">Multivariate normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_stable_distribution" title="Multivariate stable distribution">Multivariate stable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multivariate_t-distribution" title="Multivariate t-distribution">Multivariate <i>t</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normal-gamma_distribution" title="Normal-gamma distribution">Normal-gamma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Normal-inverse-gamma_distribution" title="Normal-inverse-gamma distribution">Inverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nobold"><i><a href="/wiki/Random_matrix" title="Random matrix">Matrix-valued: </a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewandowski-Kurowicka-Joe_distribution" title="Lewandowski-Kurowicka-Joe distribution">LKJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrix_normal_distribution" title="Matrix normal distribution">Matrix normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrix_t-distribution" title="Matrix t-distribution">Matrix <i>t</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrix_gamma_distribution" title="Matrix gamma distribution">Matrix gamma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inverse_matrix_gamma_distribution" title="Inverse matrix gamma distribution">Inverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wishart_distribution" title="Wishart distribution">Wishart</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Normal-Wishart_distribution" title="Normal-Wishart distribution">Normal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverse-Wishart_distribution" title="Inverse-Wishart distribution">Inverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normal-inverse-Wishart_distribution" title="Normal-inverse-Wishart distribution">Normal-inverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_Wishart_distribution" title="Complex Wishart distribution">Complex</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Directional_statistics" title="Directional statistics">Directional</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><span class="nobold"><i>Univariate (circular) <a href="/wiki/Directional_statistics" title="Directional statistics">directional</a></i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Circular_uniform_distribution" title="Circular uniform distribution">Circular uniform</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution" title="Von Mises distribution">Univariate von Mises</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wrapped_normal_distribution" title="Wrapped normal distribution">Wrapped normal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wrapped_Cauchy_distribution" title="Wrapped Cauchy distribution">Wrapped Cauchy</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wrapped_exponential_distribution" title="Wrapped exponential distribution">Wrapped exponential</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wrapped_asymmetric_Laplace_distribution" title="Wrapped asymmetric Laplace distribution">Wrapped asymmetric Laplace</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Wrapped_L%C3%A9vy_distribution" title="Wrapped Lévy distribution">Wrapped Lévy</a></dd> <dt><span class="nobold"><i>Bivariate (spherical)</i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kent_distribution" title="Kent distribution">Kent</a></dd> <dt><span class="nobold"><i>Bivariate (toroidal)</i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bivariate_von_Mises_distribution" title="Bivariate von Mises distribution">Bivariate von Mises</a></dd> <dt><span class="nobold"><i>Multivariate</i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Von_Mises%E2%80%93Fisher_distribution" title="Von Mises–Fisher distribution">von Mises–Fisher</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bingham_distribution" title="Bingham distribution">Bingham</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Degenerate_distribution" title="Degenerate distribution">Degenerate</a> <br />and <a href="/wiki/Singular_distribution" title="Singular distribution">singular</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><span class="nobold"><i>Degenerate</i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dirac_delta_function" title="Dirac delta function">Dirac delta function</a></dd> <dt><span class="nobold"><i>Singular</i></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cantor_distribution" title="Cantor distribution">Cantor</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Families</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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