Lévy distribution
| Lévy (unshifted) | |||
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| Probability density function | |||
| Cumulative distribution function | |||
| Parameters | location; scale | ||
| Support | |||
| CDF | |||
| Quantile | |||
| Mean | |||
| Median | |||
| Mode | |||
| Variance | |||
| Skewness | undefined | ||
| Excess kurtosis | undefined | ||
| Entropy | where is the Euler-Mascheroni constant | ||
| MGF | undefined | ||
| CF | |||
In probability theory and statistics, the Lévy distribution, named after Paul Lévy, is a continuous probability distribution for a non-negative random variable. In spectroscopy, this distribution, with frequency as the dependent variable, is known as a van der Waals profile. It is a special case of the inverse-gamma distribution. It is a stable distribution.