Talk:Scale parameter

can any body explain scale parameters in simpler form

Poor definition

The definition doesn't take into account:

• other possible parameters (there is only one in the formulas)
• discrete distributions (with no density function). The definition should use cdf instead.
• distributions with expected value different than 0. According to the current definition standard deviation is a scale parameter of the normal distribution only if μ=0
• multivariate distributions

Olaf m (talk) 20:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Done 3 of above 4: still leaves multivariate distributions Melcombe (talk) 09:40, 15 September 2008 (UTC)