Author(s)

William W. S. Chen

Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Engineers commonly use the gamma distribution to describe the life span or metal fatigue of a manufactured item. In this paper, we focus on finding a geodesic equation of the two parameters gamma distribution. To find this equation, we applied both the well-known Darboux Theorem and a pair of differential equations taken from Struik [1]. The solution proposed in this note could be used as a general solution of the geodesic equation of gamma distribution. It would be interesting if we compare our results with Lauritzen’s [2].

Darboux Theorem, Geodesic Equation, Differential Equation, Gamma Distribution

Chen, W. (2014) A Note on Finding Geodesic Equation of Two Parameters Gamma Distribution. Applied Mathematics, 5, 3511-3517. doi: 10.4236/am.2014.521328.