The Gamma Distribution

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The waiting time to observe the occurrence of events in a Poisson process with intensity is a random variable that follows the Gamma distribution with parameters and (both of which must be positive). The red vertical segment marks the mean of the distribution.

Contributed by: Chris Boucher (March 2011)
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