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The intro says that Levy distribution is defined on a non-negative random variable (x). But if μ < 0, then x can be negative since x belongs to [μ, infinity). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.79.203 ( talk) 14:07, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Why is this sometimes called the Mandelbrot-Levy distribution? Did Mandelbrot, who has an air for publicity, simply append his name to something he studied? Or did he contribute something in this field? User:raylopez99 07:45, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Can someone explain the significance of this? I mean, right now the page is nothing more than a definition, a not very informative comparison to other functions, and a ton of mathematical speak that anyone who's not a mathematician will understand. What is this function typically used for? What does it typically graph? etc. 66.189.210.56 06:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is little more than showing off while explaining nothing. No one without a strong background in statistics can extract any meaning at all from it.
This distribution was in the news this week in connection to an experiment about the flight patterns of fruit flies, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272938,00.html
I had hoped to find an explanation of what significance this distribution has, but despite having taken 3 semesters of calculus in college I can't make heads nor tails out of this article.
I agree that this is an unusually unhelpful article that badly needs an introduction. Levy distribution crops up in all sorts of places (search flights of fruitflies and honeybees, for example) & the information here should be able to help people from those disciplines. At the moment it doesn't. Cooke 21:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
The Characteristic function described in the text and one in the table that summarize the properties of the distribution are different. One of the two must be wrong. Could someone tell us which one is the right one?
The link to heavy-tails goes to long-rage dependency. Would it not be better to send it to the article on heavy-tailed distributions. Although that article is more mathematical, it will asist the reader who wants to know more. PoochieR ( talk) 09:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
This reads like one of the Bogdanov twins' lesser-known works. I wager that the only folk capable of making sense of this article are already completely knowledgable as to the subject covered. Would it be at all possible to re-write this in such a way that would bring new insight to the previously unenlightened reader? -- Badger Drink ( talk) 23:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
The article did help me when teaching the course "Brownian motion". Well, I was of course knowledgeable, but not completely! Also my students were able to look here. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 20:18, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Something is wrong with the last edit by Melcombe: on my screen, the picture (Probability density function for the Lévy distribution) hides a part of the previous text and formula. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 19:11, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Oops... It is not. Somehow the bad effect was temporary. Sorry for the fuss. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 19:15, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
The article claims that "It is claimed that fruit flies follow a form of the distribution to find food." Are we sure that the author of the referenced article wasn't confusing this particular distribution with a Levy process, which would yield a Levy alpha stable distribution, of which the Levy distribution that is the subject of this article is an example, but goes more generally by the name stable distribution? It seems very odd that this asymmetric distrubtion, rather than a symmetric stable distribution, would describe a fruit fly's flight pattern. I also wonder if the reference to financial modeling also is more a reference to the general stable distribution family, rather than this particular distribution. Rlendog ( talk) 16:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
what are the maxima for c=0.5, c=1, etc. -- 46.115.87.234 ( talk) 12:26, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Brownian motion in 2D? 2A01:CB0C:761:5B00:8160:74EE:9BA7:B262 ( talk) 08:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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The intro says that Levy distribution is defined on a non-negative random variable (x). But if μ < 0, then x can be negative since x belongs to [μ, infinity). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.79.203 ( talk) 14:07, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Why is this sometimes called the Mandelbrot-Levy distribution? Did Mandelbrot, who has an air for publicity, simply append his name to something he studied? Or did he contribute something in this field? User:raylopez99 07:45, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Can someone explain the significance of this? I mean, right now the page is nothing more than a definition, a not very informative comparison to other functions, and a ton of mathematical speak that anyone who's not a mathematician will understand. What is this function typically used for? What does it typically graph? etc. 66.189.210.56 06:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is little more than showing off while explaining nothing. No one without a strong background in statistics can extract any meaning at all from it.
This distribution was in the news this week in connection to an experiment about the flight patterns of fruit flies, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272938,00.html
I had hoped to find an explanation of what significance this distribution has, but despite having taken 3 semesters of calculus in college I can't make heads nor tails out of this article.
I agree that this is an unusually unhelpful article that badly needs an introduction. Levy distribution crops up in all sorts of places (search flights of fruitflies and honeybees, for example) & the information here should be able to help people from those disciplines. At the moment it doesn't. Cooke 21:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
The Characteristic function described in the text and one in the table that summarize the properties of the distribution are different. One of the two must be wrong. Could someone tell us which one is the right one?
The link to heavy-tails goes to long-rage dependency. Would it not be better to send it to the article on heavy-tailed distributions. Although that article is more mathematical, it will asist the reader who wants to know more. PoochieR ( talk) 09:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
This reads like one of the Bogdanov twins' lesser-known works. I wager that the only folk capable of making sense of this article are already completely knowledgable as to the subject covered. Would it be at all possible to re-write this in such a way that would bring new insight to the previously unenlightened reader? -- Badger Drink ( talk) 23:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
The article did help me when teaching the course "Brownian motion". Well, I was of course knowledgeable, but not completely! Also my students were able to look here. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 20:18, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Something is wrong with the last edit by Melcombe: on my screen, the picture (Probability density function for the Lévy distribution) hides a part of the previous text and formula. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 19:11, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Oops... It is not. Somehow the bad effect was temporary. Sorry for the fuss. Boris Tsirelson ( talk) 19:15, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
The article claims that "It is claimed that fruit flies follow a form of the distribution to find food." Are we sure that the author of the referenced article wasn't confusing this particular distribution with a Levy process, which would yield a Levy alpha stable distribution, of which the Levy distribution that is the subject of this article is an example, but goes more generally by the name stable distribution? It seems very odd that this asymmetric distrubtion, rather than a symmetric stable distribution, would describe a fruit fly's flight pattern. I also wonder if the reference to financial modeling also is more a reference to the general stable distribution family, rather than this particular distribution. Rlendog ( talk) 16:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
what are the maxima for c=0.5, c=1, etc. -- 46.115.87.234 ( talk) 12:26, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Brownian motion in 2D? 2A01:CB0C:761:5B00:8160:74EE:9BA7:B262 ( talk) 08:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)