[R] physical distributions

[Albyn Jones]

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 Häge 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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