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The gamma functionà is variously known as “Euler’s integral of the second kind,” “Euler’s integral,” or as the “factorial function” becauseÃ(n) = (n — 1)! for every positive integer n. The gamma function can be viewed as a continuous extension of the factorial function.
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Marshall, A.W., Olkin, I. (2007). Gamma and Beta Functions. In: Life Distributions. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68477-2_23
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