My favorite distribution vandalized on Wikipedia

Just checking in here, to see if I’m off-base. At Gamma distribution - Wikipedia, somebody changed the \text{Gamma}(\alpha,\beta) parametrization to \text{Gamma}(\alpha,\lambda). As I pointed out in the Talk page, both BDA3 and Robert’s The Bayesian Choice use the former.

Would I have any support for changing it back the way it was?

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By all means change it back. Lots of YouTube videos would be obsolete otherwise :slight_smile:

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The last time I tried to correct the Wikipedia page on “Dehydration” they accused me of vandalism because they said major textbooks endorse hyponatremic dehydration which I said didn’t exist.

But I’ve successfully made corrections in statistics articles like the Wilcoxon test, which someone claimed was invented by a bird scientist 20 years after Wilcoxon, Mann, and Whitney invented it.

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We all have to look after the commons. Against people who disparage Wikipedia (because of what they hear in right-wing media) I emphasize how I often rely on its many excellent technical pages during my workday. β is back, at least for now.

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