your stuff
on stable distribution looks nice have you got a writeup (link) on this or is this original research?
Aftershocks are occurring as the tectonic plates readjust to find a
new stable distribution of regional stresses after the megaquake.
I have, just in the past week +, discovered a remarkable property of the Levy distribution, not shared by any
other stable distribution, which motivates using it to characterize rainfall events.
This puts the fund in an excellent position to
maintain stable distributions through periods of seasonal fluctuation, and to fund future growth initiatives.»
«That's not enough for
a stable distribution [of droplet sizes], he says.
oarobin @ 57 — The Wikipedia page on
stable distributions is a place to start but I do recommend using your search engine to find Nolan's chapter 1 of his forthcoming book on stable distributions.
If its fairly good one could then fine - tune by using a «nearby»
stable distribution; however I don't intend to carry that very far forward.
But there is a substantive point behind insisting upon
a stable distribution along the lines of Emmy Noether's (first) Theorem; a symmetry discovered in nature leads to a conservation law.
To whet your appitite, one of
the stable distribution is called by Nolan, and maybe also Feller (1971), the Levy distribution.
Since
a stable distribution is given by the values of four parameters it seems plausible that some stable distribution ought to give a decent fit to the rainfall histogram for a given location.