anda Tand width Sand than rade? vants ints s per 3 alues ges cond After dt iold nost sity sa ata et), an 44 The Gamma-Type Probabilty Distribution 165 Figure 4.14 10) ‘A skewed probability 0;0<¥K 00 re=[ rte dy ‘The quantity T(@) is known as the gamma function. Direct integration will verify that P(1) = 1. Integration by parts will verify that F(a) = (a — 1)F(@ — 1) for any > 1 and that In) = (n — 1)}, provided n is an integer. The gamma-type density functions for #=1, 2, and 4 and = 1 are graphically presented in Figure 4.15. Figure 4.15 ‘The gamma density function, f= 1