Lévy distribution

The Lévy distributions family ( named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy ) with parameters defined by the density

Distribution that arises when are selected as parameters, and is also referred to as a standard distribution Lévy.

Properties

The standard Lévy distribution belongs (such as the normal distribution and the Cauchy distribution ) the super-family of alpha- stable distributions, ie must satisfy the condition

Where independent standard Lévy variables ( here). Since the theory of alpha- stable distributions was crucially shaped by Lévy, one speaks, to prevent confusion, often from the actual Lévy distribution.

Moments

The Lévy distribution has neither finite expectation value nor finite variance, because. The Lévy distribution is thus one of the so-called heavy- tailed distributions that are used primarily to extreme events to model (eg, a stock market crash in financial mathematics ).

Discrete univariate distributions for finite sets: Benford | Bernoulli | beta - binomial | binomial | categorical | hypergeometric | Rademacher | generalized binomial | Zipf | Zipf - Mandelbrot

Discrete univariate distributions for infinite sets: Boltzmann | Conway - Maxwell - Poisson | negative binomial | extended negative binomial | Compound Poisson | discrete uniform | discrete phase -type | Gauss - Kuzmin | geometric | logarithmic | parabolic fractal | Poisson | Poisson - Gamma | Skellam | Yule- Simon | Zeta

Continuous univariate distributions with compact interval: Beta | Cantor | Kumaraswamy | raised cosine | Triangle | U - square | steady uniform | Wigner semicircle

Continuous univariate distributions with half-open interval: Beta prime | Bose -Einstein | Burr | Chi-Square | Coxian | Erlang | Exponential | F | Fermi -Dirac | Folded normal | Fréchet | Gamma | Gamma Gamma | extreme | generalized inverse Gaussian | semi logistically | semi- normal | Hotelling's T-square | hyper- exponential | hypoexponential | inverse chi-square | scale - inverse- chi-square | inverse Normal | inverse gamma | Levy | log-normal | log- logistically | Maxwell -Boltzmann | Maxwell speed | Nakagami | not centered chi-square | Pareto | Phase -Type | Rayleigh | relativistic Breit-Wigner | Rice | Rosin -Rammler | shifted Gompertz | truncated normal | Type -2 Gumbel | Weibull | Wilks ' lambda

Continuous univariate distributions with unbounded interval: Cauchy | extreme | exponentially Power | Fishers z | Fisher - Tippett ( Gumbel ) | generalized hyperbolic | Hyperbolic- secant | Landau | Laplace | alpha- stable | logistics | normal ( Gaussian ) | normal - inverse Gauß'sch | skew - normal | Student's t | Type -1 Gumbel | Variance gamma | Voigt

Discrete multivariate distributions: Ewen | multinomial | Dirichlet compound multinomial

Continuous multivariate distributions: Dirichlet | generalized Dirichlet | multivariate normal | multivariate Student | normal scaled inverse gamma | Normal - Gamma

Multivariate matrix distributions: Inverse Wishart | matrix normal | Wishart

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