Gamma Function

Robert Wolpert

Duke University Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences

August 2000

History and properties of Euler's Gamma function, in the environmetrics context. Invited contribution to Wiley & Sons' Encyclopedia of Environmetrics

Cite as: 

@InCollection{wolp:2002a,
      Author = "Robert L. Wolpert",
       Title = "The Gamma Function",
   BookTitle = "Encyclopedia of Environmetrics",
      Volume = 2,
      Editor = "Abdel H. El-Shaarawi and Walter W. Piegorsch",
   Publisher = "John Wiley \& Sons",
     Address = "Chichester, NY",
       Pages = "837--839",
        Year = 2002,
}

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