Cauchy distribution

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The Cauchy distribution, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy, is a continuous probability distribution. It is also known, especially among physicists, as the Lorentz distribution (after Hendrik Lorentz), Cauchy–Lorentz distribution, Lorentz(ian) function, or Breit–Wigner distribution. The Cauchy distribution f ( x ; x 0 , γ ) {\displaystyle f(x;x_{0},\gamma )} is the distribution of the x-intercept of a ray issuing from ( x 0 , γ ) {\displaystyle (x_{0},\gamma )} with a uniformly distributed angle. It is also the distribution of the ratio of two independent normally distributed random variables with mean zero. The Cauchy distribution is often used in statistics as the canonical example of a "pathological" distribution...

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