Gamma Function — Intuition, Derivation, and Examples
Its properties, proofs & graphs
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8 min readNov 23, 2019
Why should I care?
Many probability distributions are defined by using the gamma function — such as Gamma distribution, Beta distribution, Dirichlet distribution, Chi-squared distribution, and Student’s t-distribution, etc.
For data scientists, machine learning engineers, researchers, the Gamma function is probably one of the most widely used functions because it is employed in many distributions. These distributions are then used for Bayesian inference…