Erlang Distribution

Gist

Generally talked about in mathematical modeling for if you want to add a delay into your ordinary differential equation model.

Defintion

An Erlang distribution is a special case of the Gamma Distribution where the shape parameter is an integer.

Properties

Mean:
Variance:

Relationship

• As you increase the $k$, it becomes more Normal Distribution
• When $k=1$, it becomes a Exponential Distribution