- Hyperbolic distribution
Probability distribution
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continuous probability distribution that is characterized by the fact that the logarithm of theprobability density function is a hyperbola. Thus the distribution decreases exponentially, which is more slowly than thenormal distribution . It is therefore suitable to model phenomena where numerically large values are more probable than is the case for the normal distribution. Examples are returns from financial assets and turbulent wind speeds. The hyperbolic distributions form a subclass of thegeneralised hyperbolic distribution s.The origin of the distribution is the observation by
Ralph Alger Bagnold in his bookThe Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (1941) that the logarithm of the histogram of the empirical size distribution of sand deposits tends to form a hyperbola. This observation was formalised mathematically byOle Barndorff-Nielsen in a paper in 1977, where he also introduced thegeneralised hyperbolic distribution , using the fact the a hyperbolic distribution is a random mixture of normal distributions.
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